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unskilled; clumsy; lousy; poor; awkward; shitty

5

mechanical pencil; automatic pencil

2

right or wrong; good or bad; quality; having both merits and demerits; having both advantages and disadvantages

1

skill; workmanship; dexterity; quality

1

blank space; margin; blank canvas

1

to begin to write; to begin writing; to begin to draw; to begin drawing; to begin painting

2

painter; artist

1

pure; innocent; pure; unmixed; long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth

5

library (usu. single-room); small library

2

arrival of goods; goods received

3

goods; promotional items

4

hair; fur; wool; down; plumage

1

to stand on end (hair, fur); to bristle; to ruffle (up)

1

weak person; the weak; vulnerable person; disadvantaged person

2

shout; cry; outcry; yell; shriek; scream

12

to hold up in one's arms

2

that person

1

sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back; action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; (with a) bob of the head

2

to leave; to depart; to take one's leave

13

strange; unfamiliar; mysterious; suspicious; (lit.) of an unknown nature

7

unidentifiable; unidentified

6

chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox

1

to draw a conclusion; to conclude; to settle on

2

to have a nightmare; to make a noise during a nightmare

2

side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time

1

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

2

to speak to; to give a (something) talk to; to speak words of (something)

3

night; nighttime

1

to protect (someone); to look after (e.g. an injured leg); to defend; to cover for; to stand up for; to stick up for

11

the road home

5

classbook; yearbook; graduation album

2

to collect evidence

1

fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy

4

to hang one's head; to look down; to cast one's eyes downward

2

one clap; one beat; one mora (taken as a unit of time)

2

cool; stylish; good-looking; fashionable; sexy

3

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

7

first class plus; extra special

1

female high-school student

2

it is I who should say so

1

chat-up line; pick-up line; (loving) words

1

to keep walking

5

to clasp together (esp. hands); to entwine (e.g. fingers)

1

long; (for a) long time

2

inertia; force of habit

3

offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)

4

teppanyaki (Japanese cooking prepared on a hot steel plate in the center of the table)

1

gas (state of matter, e.g. poison gas, natural gas); gasoline; gas; dense fog; thick fog; gas stove

6

to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around

1

after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)

8