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firm promise; definite promise

4

actual age; true age

1

way of using (something); way to use; how to use; way of handling (employees, subordinates, etc.); way of treating; treatment

1

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

2

home; household; family; hearth

5

report; notification; tip; message (in information and communication theory)

1

to rub together; to reconcile (ideas, proposals, plans); to compare and adjust

4

black (colour, color)

1

dancer (usu. female)

2

one rank; one grade

1

plum

6

(golf) links; lynx

8

to be ordered (to do); to be charged with (a duty); to be assigned (a job)

2

to keep (a person) waiting

1

means; expedient; instrument; upaya (skillful means, methods of teaching)

1

to get to know each other; to make acquaintance

3

along the road; along the way

2

sense of language; feeling of a word; impression a word makes; nuance

2

the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)

1

to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring

1

one's lifestyle

2

coexistence; living together; symbiosis; paragenesis

1

human society

1

retailing; repeating (someone else's words, opinion, etc.); parroting; echoing

3

development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around (sexually; esp. of a male homosexual); having an active sex life

3

commencing with; including

3

derisory; negligible; minimal; nominal; imperceptible

3

to arrange (flowers); to plant; living; live

1

professor; teaching; instruction

2

clear; clear-cut; lucid; unequivocal; explicit

1

very slow speed

1

ward; borough; city (in Tokyo); district (e.g. electoral); section; zone (e.g. postal)

2

pattern; design

1

winged

2

guide; tour guide; guidebook; guide (on a fishing rod); guide ring

1

principle; aim; purport; gist; instructions; orders

8

patriarch; head of a family

39

to swing; to shake; to wave; to veer; to deflect; to lean towards

5

shortcut; taking a shortcut; (keyboard) shortcut; short-cut hairstyle for women

2

beautiful boy; pretty boy; handsome boy

1

mud wall; earthen wall; plaster wall

1

door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows

3

entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule

6

(your) business; (your) concern; (customer's) order; official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.); arrest; capture

3

silver; senior citizen; pensioner

1

figure; body shape; build; somatotype; biotype; habitus

2

(writing, painting) brush

1

toga

1

ancient Greece

1

shaman

1