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to have one's enthusiasm dampened

protection law

Ryukyuan mission to Edo

ornamental writing (esp. initial letters)

pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps)

to ask

pyrrhotite

hemimorphite

haüyne

social awareness (e.g. in fiction)

marriage in which a man is adopted into the bride's family

potato bean (Apios americana)

Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)

snubnosed eel (Simenchelys parasitica)

Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene)

reflation

Enhanced Fujita scale (of tornado intensity)

Invasion of Ryukyu (1609)

Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)

Shōwa restoration (call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s)

tossing a coin (to a street performer or beggar)

approaching the enemy

theatre of the absurd (theater)

pebbled butterflyfish (Chaetodon multicinctus)

Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine

one's luck with the opposite sex

single (record, CD, etc.)

Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)

dipping sauce

museum (esp. with collections of old objects)