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rather; sooner; preferably; on the contrary; if anything

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steady; honest; sober; straightforward; reliable

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investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey

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means; is; as for

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How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

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trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention

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plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit

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steadily; unflaggingly; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking

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investigation; research; looking something up

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and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that ...

2

getting information (esp. by interviewing witnesses, etc. in a police investigation)

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work; job; labor; work

2

great detective

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is not; am not; are not

2

I; me

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I; me

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truth; reality; proper; right; genuine; authentic

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why; how; for what reason

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to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect

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event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble

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at that time; in those days

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alibi

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one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself

3

to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)

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cooking; kitchen work

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room; wife (of someone of high rank); scabbard; Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

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fireplace; hearth; stove

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business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...

3

to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below

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to be (animate); to be; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do

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deep-seated grudge; hatred

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one eye; one of one's eyes; being blind in one eye; person who is blind in one eye

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cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); feline; shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom (submissive partner of a homosexual relationship)

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Pluto (god); Pluto (dwarf planet)

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about; on; regarding; per; for every

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library; book storage; stack room; archive (file)

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explanation (e.g. for one's actions); excuse; justification; defense; defence

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only; merely; just; at most; no more than

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facility; facilities; institution; home (for the elderly, orphans, etc.)

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furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality

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medicine; the healing art; healing; doctor

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and yet; though; when; in spite of

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just who do you think you are?

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hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently

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to recall; to remember; to recollect

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a bit more; a bit longer

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to suit; to match; to become; to be like

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clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.

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won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you

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change; alteration; substitute; spare; rate of exchange

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