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(one's parents') home

2

temporary; transitory; short-lived

1

homecoming; returning home

1

(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad

1

unlucky

1

cheating; fraud; trickery; fake; bogus; quack

1

calmly; with composure; without fear; without a guilty look; with good grace

1

to shout (in anger); to yell

1

malicious; ill-tempered; unkind; mean; nasty

1

stay; sojourn

2

strongest

2

to fit; to suit

6

sound argument; fair argument; just reasoning

1

silence (not speaking); muteness

2

to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size

1

to feel nervous; to feel afraid; to be startled; to be surprised; (arch.) to be shy; (arch.) to be bashful

1

insane; crazy; nuts; out of one's mind

2

to be suspicious of; to be doubtful of; to be dubious of

1

large sword; long sword

8

withering; shrivelling; shrinking; contraction; atrophy

1

to pick a fight; to pick a quarrel

1

to erase; to drown out (e.g. a voice); to make disappear

4

very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point

1

sharp sword

1

mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together; both

2

to stare at each other; to lock eyes (with)

1

feeling of tension; air of tension; tension; nervousness

1

from one's side; from the side (of something); from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved

2

to spread; to be propagated

3

bad move (in chess, shogi, etc.); poor decision; bad move

1

strong point; merit; virtue; advantage

2

defect; demerit; weak point; disadvantage

1

if I (we, etc.) could; if one were to ... then ... (an unpleasant thing would happen)

2

to mistake (for something or someone else); to misread; to misjudge

2

prone (to); liable (to); apt (to); tending (to)

1

inside the breast of one's clothing (esp. kimono); bosom; space between one's chest and outstretched arms; (one's) reach; heart (e.g. of a mountain); bosom (e.g. of nature)

9

hard to imagine

1

easy-to-understand

3

tall (of a person)

1

on the occasion of; at the time of

1

to forestall; to beat to the punch; to anticipate; to play the first move (e.g. in go)

2

short (of a person)

1

absolute

1

tall (of a person)

1

rīchi; riichi; declaring that one is one tile away from winning while one's hand is completely concealed; being one step away from victory (or success, etc.)

2

not necessarily so; is not always true; there is no guarantee that ...; there is no telling

1

to pin (someone) down; to hold down; to shut out (one's opponent); to keep (the opposing team) from scoring; to suppress; to control

2

to grapple; to wrestle

1

in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability

1

to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

2