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painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable

2

last ray of hope; only hope

1

trying to think of a way (to); devising means (to); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing

1

more; much more; step; rung; paragraph; passage

5

financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence; living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time

1

to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor

2

side job (outside of one's main employment); side gig; part job (carried out at home); home industry; (secretly) working on something unrelated to the class (or conference, etc.) one is attending

1

factory; plant; mill; workshop

3

miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable

2

not worth considering; out of the question

1

to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble

5

ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling

5

to hang; to suspend; to hang oneself; to hoist an opponent off of his feet by his loincloth; to turn upwards (as if being pulled); to be slanted (of eyes)

2

rather; sooner; preferably

2

better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth

2

Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.

20

large meal; large meals

1

wheat; barley; oat (oats)

2

smut

1

rapeseed; coleseed

1

countless; incalculable

4

free (of charge); gratuitous

5

charity; philanthropy

1

lecture

9

nursing; caring for the sick; deathwatch; attendance at a deathbed

1

refusing to see a visitor

1

private (establishment)

2

standard; basis; principle

3

using money as a weapon; power of money

1

overcrowded; congested

1

to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

1

to be full; to wax (e.g. moon); to rise (e.g. tide); to mature; to expire

2

hearsay; learning by hearsay

1

crippled; deformed; imperfect; incomplete; one wheel

6

impartiality; fair play

1

depth; deep place

1

ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to

1

careful thought; consideration; deliberation; reflection; rumination; pondering

7

scraping together (a sum of money); raising (a sum of money) by straining one's credit

1

to dry

2

qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)

3

painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh

1

intention; aim; design

5

isn't it?; it really is

2

to grow old

1

beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...

2

end of a line (of writing); line break

2

trouble; bother; annoyance; to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by)

4

(all) together

1

unhappy; sad; gloomy

1