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to begin purchasing; to purchase

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perfunctory; apathetic; makeshift; slapdash; routine; usual

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home area; home town; local

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to be inclined to do; to be willing to do

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Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

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having an immediate effect; taking immediate effect

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Satsuma Rebellion (1877)

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tonic; pick-me-up

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to be beneficial (to); to do (a person) good

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Emon

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decapitation; beheading; firings; dismissals; small samurai sword used for decapitation

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detoxification; counteracting poison; neutralizing poison

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ekayana (doctrine that only one teaching, usu. the Lotus Sutra, can lead to enlightenment)

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middle-school student

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(rocky) beach; seashore

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non-migratory seabed fish (e.g. rockfish)

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tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance

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seaward side

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to become greasy; to become oily; to be loud and garish

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to wipe off; to wipe up

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scrapped vessel; decommissioned ship; hulk

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necessary; indispensable; must-have; must (juice of grapes or other fruit prior to fermentation into wine)

2

colour usage; color usage; use of colour

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mainland China; China proper

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to go bad (of food); to spoil; to turn sour

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mold smell; mould smell

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to become decrepit and ugly with age

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to lose one's energy; to be cowardly

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to talk; to carry meaning

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cylinder or rod-shaped

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semi-arid; semiarid; semidry

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jujube (Ziziphus jujuba); Chinese date; red date; small tea caddy (tea ceremony)

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falling with a splat; oozing; dripping

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smelling of fish; fishy; degenerate (of a monk); depraved; worldly; mundane

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to choke; to be choked (by); to sob convulsively

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to throw into; to toss into; to throw-in; to play a throw-in

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able-bodied; robust; sturdy; strong

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to employ; to hire (a servant)

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state of confusion

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mysterious death

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mark; target; object; subject; point (e.g. of argument)

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leaving behind; desertion; abandonment

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remaining bones after decay of a corpse; a person's weathered bones; dead person; the deceased

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fleshing out (e.g. a plan); giving substance to; modeling; modelling

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supply; supplying; replenishment

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to come in (of light); to shine in; to stream in; to pour in

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to cramp; to be cramped; to get a cramp (in)

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expansion; swelling; increase; growth

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to dry (up); to become parched; to ebb; to recede

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purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not

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