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promise; agreement; convention; rule; destiny; fate

1

plus; addition; positive number; gain; advantage; anode

1

to emboss; to print out; to print; to work out (e.g. policy); to hammer out; to strike (a drum indicating the end of a performance)

1

give-and-take; give and take

1

I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...

1

well, I must admit ...

1

inhabitant; resident; citizen; population

1

ego; egoism; egoist

2

confrontation; to face; to confront; to encounter

1

tedious; boring; being fed up with

1

avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)

1

one-way traffic

2

street light

1

light-emitting diode; LED

2

mediation; good offices; influential person; person of influence; (arch.) eloquence; (arch.) eloquent person

1

to break (into pieces); to be broken; to collapse; to crumble; to become less formal; to throw off reserve

1

promptly; immediately; quickly; indifferently

1

politics; government

5

whitewashing; glossing over; lip service; deftly finishing up; putting on the final touches

1

ballot; vote

2

to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach

2

to dodge; to evade; to avoid; to sidestep

1

stepwise; one step at a time

1

ideal; ideals

1

towards; against; regarding; in contrast with

1

cool (temperature, color, etc.); cool (i.e. calm and collected); cool (i.e. fashionable, attractive, etc.); course (of medical treatment); season (series) of a television program (usu. 13 installments over a 3-month period)

1

ironist; sarcastic person; sharp tongue; satirist

1

to tease; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make a crack about; to chaff; to kid

1

to affect a stylish air; to try to look good; to show off

1

to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass

1

impudent; shameless; brazen; forward; audacious; cheeky

1

to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon

1

in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely

2

to proceed with; to continue with; to move on; to go forward; to pursue

1

society; the world; the times

1

election campaign

1

properly; accurately; exactly; neatly; tidily; orderly

1

to set up (a house, store, etc.); to build; to have at the ready (e.g. a gun); to hold in preparation (e.g. a camera); to adopt a posture; to assume a stance; to put on an air

1

fully equipped (particularly with reference to cars)

1

grassroots door-to-door election campaign

1

very; much; greatly; a lot of

1

pride

1

to fling off; to throw off; to cast aside; to abandon; to throw to the winds

1

in front of a station

2

commuting to work

1

commuting to school; school commute

1

citizen; citizenry; city inhabitant; townspeople; bourgeoisie; middle class

3

to hate; to dislike

1

handshake; reconciliation; joining hands; cooperation

1

ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream

1