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a. [装飾] ornamental; embellishing; serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose


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n. [発散] difference; deviation; separation; the act of moving away in a different direction


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n. [電子] an elementary particle with the negative charge


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n. [除去] act of removing or getting rid of something


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n. [過言] overstatement; the act of making something more noticeable than usual


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n. [変動] a wave motion; a situation in which prices, levels, or interest rates go up and down


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v. [禁止] not allow; prohibit; prevent


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n. [先祖] an ancestor; forebear; a member of the past generations of one's family or people


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a. [前] preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier


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n. [花崗岩] a common, coarse-grained, light-colored, hard igneous rock consisting chiefly of quartz; unyielding endurance


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