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adviser; advisor; consultant

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persuasion

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I appreciate your efforts

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straight (ahead); direct; upright; straightforward; honest; frank

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grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude

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splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight

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since when; from when; how long

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concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works

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difficult to ...; hard to ...

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fantastic; magical; wondrous; whimsical; fairytale-like; romantic

1

rough sketch

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still life (painting, drawing)

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complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression

1

worthless; pointless; useless

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hors d'oeuvre

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main dish; main course

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attractive; good-looking; stylish; cool; smooth; neat

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now that; since; so long as; because

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arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.; otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish)

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weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)

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to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)

1

to hurt; to injure; to harm; to damage; to worry; to bother

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despair; hopelessness

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so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here

1

letting (someone) die without helping

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distance; range

1

before one's eyes; in front of one; under one's nose; immediate; imminent; around the corner

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shriek; scream

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to weigh on one's mind; to trouble one's heart; to be concerned about; to worry about

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skewer; spit; skewering; impalement; running through (e.g. with spear)

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without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after

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happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing

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tee-hee

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theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse

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selfishness; egotism; egoism; (being) self-centered; without consulting; (doing) as one pleases

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explanation; interpretation

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this much; this amount

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ceremony held at the end of a school term; end-of-term ceremony

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to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt

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fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare

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sense of helplessness; feeling of powerlessness

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rematch

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to hold fast; to protect to the end

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still; much more; (not) yet; still a long way to go; still a long way off; not there yet

2

who

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explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend

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safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction

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to come back

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medium; average; moderation; middle school; China; volume two (of three); during (a certain time when one did or is doing something)

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in the meanwhile; during the time

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