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bashfulness; shyness; (showing) signs of embarrassment

4

stifled laugh; chuckling; snickering

3

one elbow

4

to narrow; to contract

6

cleaning; scrubbing

2

smirkingly; smugly; broadly

3

twilight; sunset; dusk; evening

2

plastic wrap; cling film; cling wrap; to wrap in plastic wrap

5

trade sample; product sample

2

work; workmanship; craftsmanship; artifice; trick; device

3

imitation; fake; counterfeit; sham

3

you; my dear; hey

1

mountain demon

2

fake goods; imitations

5

"professional name" used by hostesses and geisha

2

manager; proprietor

2

younger child

2

French food

3

20 years old

2

evening deepens into night; the night wears on; night advances

5

mumblingly; mutteringly; unintelligibly

3

speciality; specialty; subject of study; expert; area of expertise

4

declaration; profession

3

to be sensible; to be smart; to be tasteful; to be thoughtful; to be tactful; to be sensitive

2

to be a prostitute; to work as a prostitute; to sell sexual services

4

lip; lip balm; chapstick

2

(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it

2

vein (esp. in head)

1

to rage; to storm (at); to be furious; to enthuse; to speak enthusiastically; to speak with vigour

1

with a broad grin; smirking

7

to call in; to invite; to bring in

6

light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous

1

refugee; displaced person; person inconvenienced by (lack of something); person unable to satisfactorily (marry, shop, etc.)

1

Metropolitan Police Department (esp. Tokyo)

1

The End; Finis; completion; conclusion; providing fully

2

pity; sympathy; compassion; affection; love

3

without compensation; without reward; without pay; free (of charge)

2

to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; (lit.) to make (grind) one's body into dust

1

poverty is a stranger to industry; diligence is the mother of good fortune

1

living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet

1

selecting; choosing

1

interest (in something); enthusiasm

6

great trouble; difficulty

2

soy; soybean; soya bean; soy sauce

1

habit of idleness (laziness); indolence

1

to exert oneself

1

water wheel; water turbine; hydraulic turbine; (arch.) violent wielding of weapons

1

family breakdown; family disintegration; collapse of one's family

1

chief; main; principal; main secondary or supporting role (in kyogen)

1

matter for the court; (ending up as a) lawsuit; legal tussle; court fight

1