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to rack one's brain

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thousands; several thousand

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dusk; nightfall; twilight

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bat (Chiroptera spp.); umbrella; opportunist; turncoat

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relation of cause and effect; causal relationship; causal link; causality

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sickbed; (hospital) bed

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pride; boast; credit (to)

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myself; oneself; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you (referring to one's inferior)

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one's long-cherished desire

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to rot; to decay; to die in obscurity; to be forgotten with time

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lingering scent; lingering fragrance; residual aroma

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personification; impersonation; embodiment

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to change into; to be transformed; to be transfigured; to transform; to alter; to convert

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stands; bleachers; stand (e.g. newspaper stand); counter (e.g. lunch counter); stand (e.g. inkstand); desk lamp

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sweets (desserts, candy, etc.)

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to wear; to be dressed in; to be adorned in; to clad oneself with

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to come back

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skipping out; cutting class; truancy; procrastination

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big job; great task

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waiting to see one's opponent's move before doing anything (e.g. as a disallowed act in rock, paper, scissors); bringing something up after the fact; revealing something afterwards; holding back until the last minute

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manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act, usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit

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exactly; nicely; to a tee; to be fitting

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extension; elongation; (total) length; extension (e.g. of one's work); continuation; extension (of a line segment); extension (property of occupying space)

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bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)

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crash (esp. of a vehicle); crash; kurash (Central Asian form of wrestling)

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chatteringly; wittering on; prattling on; blathering on

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boohoo; boo hoo; waa waa

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younger sister

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repetition; repeat; replication; recursion; iteration

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emotional instability

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hey; yo; hi; yessir; understood

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travel; trip; journey

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addressing (someone) without using a suffix such as "-san" or "-chan" (considered impolite)

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foreigner (esp. a Westerner); gaijin; (arch.) outsider

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foreign language

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pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.

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Japanese (language)

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sexual relations; physical relations; carnal relations

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15th day of the month; 15 days

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disappearance; running away; going missing; absconding

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to place (in position); to fix; to install; to seat (someone); to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)

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prison; jail; gaol

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having a wife; marrying (a woman); marriage

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extremely gruesome; lurid; violent; bloody; fierce

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beating (inflicted as punishment); mob violence; mob justice

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inquiry; enquiry; investigation; (police) interview; questioning (e.g. witness, suspect); hearing

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relative; relation

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time series; chronological order; chronology

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neighbour to the right (person, building, etc.)

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divining sticks; counting; calculation

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