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reminiscent talk

3

to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically; to become successful and well known

2

interrogation room; interview room; sweatbox

1

polite; courteous; hospitable

1

smooth; flat; featureless; uneventful; noppera-bō; mythical being with flat featureless face

5

to work out; to think out; to devise; to invent

1

average; medium; mid-grade (item); regular grade; same level as; equal to

2

with a friendly grin; smilingly

1

overseas business trip

1

holiday; day off

2

give up; relinquish; serve up; let loose

3

sleep

1

skin; body (in the context of intimate bodily contact); surface; grain (e.g. of wood); disposition; temperament

1

to be stormy; to be rough; to be rough (of skin); to be chapped; to be ruined; to fall into ruin

1

drawing up (e.g. legal document, contract, will, etc.); preparing; writing; framing; making; producing

2

hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing

1

desperate; hopeless

3

precise; accurate; appropriate; exactly the right

1

restlessly; hurriedly; agitatedly; fidgeting

1

to be deep in talk

2

incorrigible; dogged

1

to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)

4

hope; promise; expectation; anticipation; side of a structural member

2

this life; this world

1

final coat (of paint, plaster, varnish, etc.); finish; glazing; adding more of the same (of something negative, e.g. shame)

1

foolish act; folly

1

blue mold; blue mould; penicillium

1

blue cheese

1

to send in

1

in a daze; absent-mindedly; dimly; hazily; with a roar (of flames); with a whoosh

4

something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts

1

to manage; to arrange; to talk over; to dispose of

1

long way; great distance

1

from afar; over a great distance; all the way

2

madder (esp. Japanese madder, Rubia argyi); madder (red color)

3

kite

2

to have stiff shoulders; to feel ill at ease; to feel uncomfortable; serious; sober

1

10,000,000; ten million; extremely large number; myriad

1

incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling

4

to attend on; to wait on; to accompany; to escort; to chaperone

1

omniscience and omnipotence

1

notice or order handed down from above; announcement; notification; Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) to the concerned parties

2

we; us

8

seeing through (a trick, someone's mind, etc.)

2

1000 ri; (a) long distance

1

to see without obstruction; to see through; to forecast; to predict; to anticipate

1

luxurious and gorgeous; magnificent

1

to break into (houses here and there); to rampage

2

extremely delighted

1

bargaining point; terms of exchange; conditions for meeting a demand

1