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earpick; ear cleaning (with an earpick)

12

300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster

4

insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising

1

returned goods; returning purchased goods

4

miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key point; main point; weakling

1

eleven; 11; jack

1

articulation; speaking one's lines smoothly; reciting one's lines well

1

cutlet (usu. crumbed and fried)

2

several hundred; hundreds (of)

2

pochette; pouch (usu. hung from the shoulder by a long cord)

1

silly person; dumb-bunny; dope

1

almost; nearly; close to

4

line; queue; procession; matrix

1

tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?

2

to stop (doing); to cease; to desist; to drop; to lay off; to give up

1

just kidding; Not!

2

to become speechless; to be at a loss for words

4

anywhere; here and there; common; run-of-the-mill; ordinary

2

as always; as usual

1

to be true to nature; to be lifelike

1

bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

3

stingy; mean; narrow-minded; petty; shabby; poor

1

unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help

1

imperial lands; lands blessed by the emperor's reign

3

substitution; replacement; shifting; change

1

seeing for the first time; first sight; first meeting; sight-reading

1

to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous; to be absurd

2

main thread (of a story)

1

word game; wordplay; playing with words

3

having at one's mercy; trifling with; toying with; playing with; making a fool of; leading around by the nose

6

telling a riddle

5

crow (Corvus spp.); raven

2

Bible; the Scriptures; Holy Writ

2

first and last (time, chance, etc.); (the) only

2

(jumping) nimbly; light-footed; boing; used at sentence end to affect cuteness

2

unfashionable; uncouth; unrefined; unpolished; unsophisticated

1

best; extra-fine; superfine; exceptionally; extraordinarily; by far

1

to see eye to eye; to be on the same wavelength; to talk the same language

1

Wonderland (fictional locale created by author Lewis Carroll)

1

cannot be compared (with); being no match (for)

3

bouncing a ball against a wall (e.g. tennis exercise); bouncing ideas off of someone; using someone as a sounding board; continually posting on social media without engaging in dialogue

1

brightness; discernment; insight; eyesight; vision; nth year in the Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)

1

straight-laced person; stubborn person

2

space; air; midair; (from) memory; (by) heart

2

wrapping; lapping (i.e. grinding, polishing)

3

five o'clock

10

to close up; to shut up (e.g. behind doors); to cut off (e.g. because a deadline has expired); to close off (e.g. subscription list)

1

sunlight

1

foreign-made

1

fabric softener; fabric conditioner

1