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or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean

1

water pistol; squirt gun; water gun

4

user; consumer; employer

1

charge (electrical); recharging; charge (fee); topping up (a contactless smart card); recharging; refuelling; charge

4

number of times; frequency; count

1

counter for long and narrow things (e.g. guns, spades, hoes, oars, ink sticks, candles, abacuses, kitchen knives, scissors, shamisen, violins); counter for palanquins, rickshaws, and similar vehicles

15

to start to say; to attempt to say; to be about to say; to speak to; to address

4

sometimes; often

1

to affix; to append; to entrust; to refer; to follow (the leader); to submit (a document, etc.)

2

study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science

21

to aspire to; to aim for; (arch.) to give a gift (as a token of gratitude, goodwill, etc.); (arch.) to perform a memorial service

1

jumble; mixture; mess; muddle; disorder; chaos

4

infancy; childhood; tender age

7

imperial university; university founded by the Empire of Japan between 1886 and 1939; Imperial University (name of the University of Tokyo between 1886 and 1897)

4

childhood; infancy

2

adult; grown-up; becoming an adult; coming of age; growing up (to be a man, woman)

13

within the school

1

advancing to the next stage of education; going on to (high school, college, etc.)

2

typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model

1

tacit; unspoken; implicit

4

expressing one's feelings; communicating one's intention; declaration of intent

2

even so; however; still; whereupon; even though; nevertheless

1

night-vision device

2

resonance; sympathy (with a view, idea, etc.)

2

optics

1

camouflage; disguise

2

research results

1

rusk

3

confectionery; sweets; candy; cake

13

to screw in; to thrust into; to push into; to protest (and seek rectification); to complain

1

to eat; to drink

5

male carer (at a nursery school, children's home, etc.); childcare worker

2

to winnow (grain)

1

destructive; devastating

3

floral pattern; flourish; ornament; star (actor, player, etc.)

1

changing (job, career, lifestyle, social position, beliefs, etc.)

1

distinguished war service; merit of war

9

to rise (to a high position); to work one's way up; to push one's way up; to be promoted

1

centre; center; pivot; central nervous system

2

extremely dangerous; full of peril

1

scholar; academic; scientist; learned person; person of learning

19

religious atmosphere

1

the intellectual class

4

supporter; adherent; proponent; backer

7

child of an emperor

575

future prospects; promise

2

as you know; as we know

1

confinement; imprisonment; incarceration

6

superior; special class; higher than A class; extraordinary

1

worldly wisdom; secret of success in life

3