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• kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan

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• stockout; out of stock

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• civic education; education for citizenship

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• Twelver Shiism; branch of Shia Islam

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• dispute over water rights; dispute over the distribution of water into paddies during the summer (in rural areas) ➜ 水喧嘩

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• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

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• desperate measure; expedient of last resort

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• notice; letter of advice

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• trimix; diver's gas mix of helium, oxygen, and nitrogen

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• rainproof; treated against drops of water penetrating

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• backlighting; having a light source in front of the camera lens in photography - abbreviation ➜ 逆光線

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• technical limitations; limits of technology - IT term

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• metropolitan governor; governor of Tokyo

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• full flush; winning hand containing only tiles of one suit - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• homogeneity (e.g. manuf. using products from one source)

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• ETA; estimated time of arrival ➜ ＥＴＤ

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• fifth force; fifth force of nature - Physics term

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• Clarke number; abundance of a chemical element in the Earth's crust, as calculated by geochemist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke - Geology term

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• democracy; democratic system of government

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• essays; collection of miscellaneous thoughts

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• unpredictability; element of surprise

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• ETD; estimated time of departure ➜ ＥＴＡ

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• light tearing or ripping sound; sound of tearing along perforated lines - onomatopoeia

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• amicable resignation (retirement); resigning (retiring) from one's job of one's free will - four character idiom

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• patentee; holder of a patent

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• Hadith; tradition related to the words and deeds of Muhammad - From Arabic "hadit"