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scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)

2

useful thing; usable article; present; gift

1

my goodness!; good lord!; holy cow!

1

free and easy; open-hearted; relaxed; not fussy; frank

2

wishful thinking

2

to be insolent; to be arrogant; to be impudent; to be rude

1

to bite each other; to fit together; to mutually encroach; to eat together

1

to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)

4

to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm

1

starvation; famine; hunger

1

reinforcement; strengthening

1

(death from) starvation; starving to death

1

poor plan

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to become mentally unstable; to suffer from mental illness

1

accommodation; taking in; imprisonment; detention; containing (e.g. words in a dictionary); adding

1

a drop in the bucket; a drop in the ocean; pointless exercise; waste of time; (something that is) too little, too late; (lit.) (pouring) water on a hot stone

3

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

1

to kill one's enemy (opponent)

1

absolute best; very finest; top-class; first-rate; elite

1

what one likes, one will do well; you become good at what you like doing

1

to mind; to care; to worry

1

to illuminate; to shine a light on; to light up

3

pole dance; pole dancing

1

scene; sight; scenario; setting

1

bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

1

to drive into (e.g. a nail into a board); to hit into (e.g. a home run into the stands); to throw into (e.g. jail); to drum into (someone) (an idea, skill, etc.); to hammer into

1

number of times; frequency; count

2

to soak (into); to permeate; to sting (of a wound, sensitive area, etc.); to smart; to be infected (e.g. with vice); to be steeped (e.g. with prejudice)

1

to become ...-ish; to appear like ...; to have a touch of ...; to become stained with ...; to become steeped with ...; to become smeared with ...

1

frame; framework; border; box; limit; restriction; category

2

contortion; distortion; warp; kink (in one's character); twist

1

(feeling of) hunger

10

gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail

2

skip (bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot); skipping (over); skip (captain of a curling team); skipper

1

across; over; beyond; throughout (a period of time); for

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cushion to soften the blow; something that cushions the blow

1

to insert; to include; to incorporate; to install; to embed

1

one line; one streak; one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one matter (affair, event, case, incident)

2

to tear; to rip

4

abrupt; sudden

5

endlessly; continuously; (going) on and on; meandering; winding; sinuous

3

riddled with holes; full of holes; full of flaws; full of loopholes; faulty

4

bright; intelligent; clever; smart

1

construction; building; putting up; erecting; creation; formulation

1

system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship

2

taste (in fashion, music, etc.); sense (e.g. of humour); flair

3

to speak badly (of); to speak ill (of); to bad-mouth

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and; although; but

2

one's own effort

1

to hug (someone) tight; to embrace; to give (someone) a tight hug; to cuddle

2