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excellent answer; clever answer

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cold-hearted; callous; unfeeling; insentient (objects); insensate; inanimate

2

ability to take action; ability to take initiatives; energy; dynamism; drive

4

practical experience; actual experience

1

fabrication; pipe dream

2

secret talk

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currently nowhere to be seen; unknown where it went; disappeared into thin air

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close; intimate; on good terms

3

to blush; to have flushed cheeks

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knowingly or unknowingly; with or without someone's knowledge

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lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication

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anger; wrath

5

gluttonous; greedy

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with a thump; (hanging) straight down

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just right (time, size, length, etc.)

6

to eat a mouthful; to take a bite

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cream (colour, color)

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to become empty; to be emptied

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home cooking

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thanks (for coming, helping, etc.); good work; see you; goodbye; tiredness; fatigue

2

smoothly; easily; readily

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ball-point pen

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on the desk; theoretical; academic; armchair (e.g. plan)

1

to be somewhat stylish; to be somewhat chic

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report; paper; reportage

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university student; college student

3

writing on someone's behalf

2

presentation (of documents); submission (of an application, report, etc.); production (e.g. of evidence); introduction (e.g. of a bill); filing; turning in

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copying in entirety (verbatim)

2

graduation thesis; bachelor's degree thesis

1

manuscript (book); written copy of a book; codex; transcription; copying

3

brown; light brown; tawny

3

change of color; change of colour; fading; discoloration; discolouration

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to estimate

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elder brother; big brother; one's senior; one's elder; old ingredients; stale ingredients

5

army corps; corps

2

inheritance; something given or received

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and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that

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betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)

4

very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point

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a diamond on a dunghill is still a diamond; quality is quality; an old eagle is better than a young crow; (lit.) even if it's rotten, it's still sea bream

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technical; technological; practical

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picking out; choosing; picking (someone) up (in a vehicle); pickup (in a record player); (phono) cartridge; pickup (truck)

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earnings

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10,000 yen

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side job (outside of one's main employment); side gig; homeworking; simple job carried out at home; (secretly) working on something unrelated to the class (or conference, etc.) one is attending

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useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated

4

to be taken aback; to be dumbfounded

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with a plunge (of something sharp into something soft); with a thrust; with a stab; sullenly; sulkily; glumly

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to sit down; to take a seat

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