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taking an examination (esp. school and university entrance)

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ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer

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pride; self-confidence; thinking highly of oneself; being proud of one's abilities or achievements

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when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

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playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)

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extension; elongation; prolongation; Enchō era (923.4.11-931.4.26)

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spine; backbone; spinal column

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brain

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to ooze (out); to seep

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bitter

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unpleasant feelings (e.g. hatred, disgust, revulsion, fear)

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good (place to leave off); convenient

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to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request)

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to look up at; to raise one's eyes; to look up to; to admire; to respect

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white

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moonlight; moonbeam

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thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)

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emission (of light); radiation (of light); luminescence

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the more ... the more ...; as; (arch.) while; (arch.) during; (arch.) because; (arch.) since

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sense of reality

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meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up

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simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated

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naked; bare; uncovered; frank; open; blunt

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something; nothing (with neg. verb)

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to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to

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gravity; gravitation; gravitational pull

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absurd; ridiculous; silly; ludicrous; nonsensical; asinine

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to show in; to usher in

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in one's imagination

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and then; after that

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dry riverbed; river beach

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lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)

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original; novel; new

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to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

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monkey

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to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour

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to dive (into or under water); to get under; to get into; to hide oneself (esp. from the government); to conceal oneself

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to speak; to say; to vocalize

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thank you for waiting; sorry to have kept you waiting

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thank you; thanks

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to crawl out of; to creep out of

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in the morning; during the morning

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early morning

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to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous

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extent; scope; sphere; range; span

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completely; absolutely; totally; (not) at all

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hide-and-seek (game); hide-and-go-seek

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underground; below the ground; world of the dead; the grave; underground (activities, movement, etc.); secret

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there; over there; genitals; private parts; that far; that much

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pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe

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