wakashu (plural wakashu)
(archaic) A boy after early childhood but before his coming-of-age ceremony
A role in kabuki traditionally played by a boy of this age category
The soldiers of the oyabun, who perform the tasks that the oyabun gives them without hesitation. (From the Japanese yakuza hierarchy.)

Matariki is the Maori New Year. Just before dawn this morning, the seven stars of the Pleiades which Maori call Matariki, appeared in the sky. Some Maori iwi celebrate Matariki after the next full moon or at the next new moon. For Maori, it was a tim

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accountable for
al-ayoun
aluminium thiocyanate
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ankle central bone
anti-fog insulator
at hack and monger
balance of moving part
beta-Hydroxybutyrate
calculating instrument
Carnot's butter
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cesium iridium alum
charitable donation allowance
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crat
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dim sim
direct-axis subtransient voltage
Dubin-Johnson
e.e
electrochemical equilibrium
ephedran
family Callitrichaceae
fin tube heat exchanger
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Franz Ferdinand
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Huwei Township
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Kurashiki
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mary mallons
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N-2-oxoethyl-dichloroacetamide
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old hag syndrome
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Phatthalung
Portuguese Water Dogs
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return home
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seemeth
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sharaga
shell and-coil condenser
sindbad
software support manual
sooty mold of tea
spring hammer
Središče
stand to one's gun
structural steel erection
tempered glass
tetramethyl-diaminobenzophenone
thiosulfite
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top slicing
torque tool
torsional stabilizer
tridactylid
triethylene glycol diglycidyl ether
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