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advice

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to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot

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to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe and humor (humour)

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without

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to assault with a sword; to stab at; to slash at

3

dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)

1

to hang on to; to hang from; to hound; to keep after (someone); to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips

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sharpness; cutting ability; quickness (of wit); incisiveness; peppiness (of a ball)

1

outstanding; excellent; exceptional; preeminence; distinction; extraordinariness

2

sharp sword

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unless one ...; if one does not ...

3

daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus); ham actor

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fighting with real swords; game played in real earnest

2

offense; offence; crime; guilt; punishment

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to make sure of; to ascertain; to confirm; to grasp

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mess; spoiled; spoilt; (come to) nothing; ruin

2

to turn one's head; to look over one's shoulder; to turn around; to think back (on); to reminisce; to look back (on)

3

dry riverbed; river beach

1

cut; notch; raid; attack

2

dealing fully (with); going into (issue, etc.); stepping into; alcove

1

Gila

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fatal; lethal

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to explain; to dispel doubts

3

once and for all; completely; spotlessly

1

what color

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thud

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(powers of) concentration; ability to concentrate

1

favorite; favourite; habitually used

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to wash away; to rinse off

2

river; stream; River; the ... river

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hair

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make-up; makeup; cosmetics

5

project

1

breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)

3

sponsor

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dismissal (from a post); discharge; removal

1

vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)

1

indemnities; reparations

1

10,000,000,000; ten billion

1

end; conclusion

4

just like; the same as; no different than

1

to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of

2

stingy; cheap; very frugal

1

blowing (e.g. of the wind); playing (a wind instrument); player (e.g. clarinet); (pair of) bellows; casting; founding

2

to water (a plant, a flower etc.)

1

to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was

1

series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza

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robbery; pillage; seizure; hijacking; plunder; extortion

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trying to think of a way (to); devising means (to); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing

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to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

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