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to escape from; to get out

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shamelessly; acting brazenly unaffected; being resigned to (disgrace)

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slave; servant; slavery

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busily; sedulously; laboriously; feverishly; fussily; worrying (about little things)

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Ambrose Bierce

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word; remark; statement

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proletariat; lower classes

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privation; hardship

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upper class; upper echelons of society; the rich and powerful; the elite

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to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up

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as soon as possible

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manly; masculine; like a man

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capitalist; financier

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in one's hands; in one's control

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hostage

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industry; (arch.) livelihood; (arch.) occupation

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playing the game of go

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frame (e.g. of film, panel in a comic, etc.); scene; time block (e.g. of a class schedule)

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to join (a group); to join companions

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to defeat

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general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different

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market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market

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commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise

7

offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)

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to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create

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tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)

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robust health; able-bodied

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to be able to do; to be capable of doing

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to not amount to much

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to sell

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literature

8

age; years

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wildly different (in ability, strength, etc.); on another level; in a different league; of different heights; uneven

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to put one's heart and soul into something

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creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention

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systematic

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study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science

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California

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university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

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entry to school or university; matriculation; enrolment (in university, etc.) (enrollment)

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to plan; to intend; to aspire to; to set aims (sights on)

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condition; assumption; intention; intent; premise (in logic)

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-years-old

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Auckland (New Zealand); Oakland

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high school

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annual (plant); first-year student

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graduation; completion (of a course); moving on (from); outgrowing (something); leaving (a group, company, etc.)

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desk

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study; diligence; discount; reduction

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twelve; 12; queen (playing card)

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