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songwriting (words and music)

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he; she; that guy

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sentimental; sentimentality

2

ignoring a traffic light; red-light violation; running a red light; jaywalking

1

cuckoo

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questioning (e.g. by police)

4

town; city; municipal; urban

2

rarely; seldom

2

to trick; to cheat; to deceive

1

to have heard somewhere; to sound familiar

1

inside one's heart; in one's mind

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to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade

2

value to society; raison d'être; existence value

2

unexpected; unforeseen; inconceivable

1

fantasy; illusion; vision; dream

4

the middle class

1

number (on its own, without considering its proportion to the whole); overall number

1

unwelcome; nerdish; unpopular

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narcissist

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to turn completely into; to become completely

1

finishing blow; coup de grâce

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to worry about; to be worried about; to fret about; to not know what to do; to be at a loss (as to what to do)

2

utterly (unknown; esp. of someone's whereabouts); completely; (no information) whatsoever; at all

1

probably not so

1

original story; original version; this volume

1

leader; pioneer; guide; leader (in Shugendō)

1

stupid; meaningless; worthless; hopeless (person, situation); beyond help; beyond saving

1

person obsessed with thoughts of sex

1

(power of) resistance

1

to trip (over); to stumble; to fail; to suffer a setback

2

deep blue sky; bottomless blue sky

1

good feeling; feeling good

1

just one person; only one

1

we are of equal status in this regard; we are in the same boat; the same to you; the feeling is mutual

5

component; element; part

3

one-by-one; separately; in detail

1

to get involved or entangled in; to get mixed up in; to have something to do with; to have dealings with

4

example; simile; metaphor; allegory

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to get close; to cuddle close together; to nestle close to; to snuggle up to

2

monotony; monotone; dullness; monotone; monotonic

1

trip; excursion; (drug) trip; tripcode

1

inner sanctuary; inner shrine; sanctum sanctorum; holy of holies; place behind main hall of a temple enshrining temple founder, miraculous Buddhas, hidden statues, etc.

3

ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities; ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami

1

spirit of a deceased person; the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit

1

exception; exclusion

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to strain (oneself); to bear down; to exert oneself; to put on a bold front; to make a show of strength; to swagger

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to sit; to squat; to be implicated

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falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall; mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside

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epitaph; inscription on a tombstone

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noodles; (arch.) flour

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