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futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness

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even if; even though; however; no matter how

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bento; Japanese box lunch

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occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom

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procurement; purchase; buying; school store; co-op; school canteen

4

secret intention; ulterior motive; kanji "heart" radical at bottom

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full view; plain sight; completely visible

1

somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of

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bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread

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to get flustered; to get flurried; to get agitated; to become impatient; to hurry

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coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency

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to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect

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to make someone's acquaintance; to become acquainted (with)

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ulterior motive; plot; scheme; complicated circumstances; intricacies

1

as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); still; all the same; even ... (e.g. "even a genius")

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quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive

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(somebody else's) parents; both parents

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very young; little; childish; immature

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time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity

2

traffic accident

2

to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)

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lunch; noon; midday; daytime; waking up; getting up

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always; all the time; never; usual; regular

1

famous; fame

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increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

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a person without a single relative

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point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead

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looking for something; searching for something; object being sought

2

return; coming back

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slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late

1

club activities; extracurricular activities

4

thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...

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university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

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to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)

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circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances

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taking an examination (esp. school and university entrance)

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final stage; final stretch; live printing area (in publishing); gallery (in a theatre); driving (animals, fish, etc.); herding

1

waste of time; killing time

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(one's parents') home

1

distance; range

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to long for; to yearn after; to admire; to be attracted by

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now; the present time; just now; another; more

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meal; dinner; diet

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washing; laundry; relaxing; taking a break

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burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering

1

big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important

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trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention

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cooking for oneself; cooking one's own food; doing one's own cooking; scanning a book or magazine to create an ebook by oneself

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delivery pizza; home-delivered pizza

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body; physique; shape; form; substance; identity; field

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