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certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons

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opening a business; opening a practice

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physician in private practice; (arch.) town doctor; (arch.) doctor who served the townspeople (as opposed to the emperor, a daimyo, etc.)

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early on; earlier on; from early

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United Kingdom; Britain; Great Britain; England

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throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

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cutting edge; leading edge; forefront; tip; end

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to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in

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criminal psychology

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all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total

2

energy; vigor; vigour; vitality

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to pour into (liquids); to pump into

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page

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unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking

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expert's written opinion or report

5

use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement

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rejection; dismissal

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very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly

2

shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma

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perhaps; maybe; possibly

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darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy

1

moving (location, with the times, etc.); change; metastasis; spread; transition (e.g. phase transition); transfer (of learning)

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to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start

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Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)

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employment en masse (esp. of middle and high school graduates from the rural districts during Japan's post-war economic boom)

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proceeding to the capital (Tokyo)

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Shibuya, a special ward in Tokyo

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fruit

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encounter; being confronted with (e.g. difficulty); meeting with (e.g. accident)

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rifle

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guns; firearms

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passerby; pedestrian; foot passenger

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casualties; the killed and wounded

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the whole town; all over the town; throughout the town

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head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host

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to watch steadily; to stare

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ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice

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contagion; infection

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imitation; copying

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tribute

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resale

2

pawnshop

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at present; currently; so far; for now; for the time being

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in comparison to; rather than

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vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard

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(many) mountains; very much (wanting to do something one cannot); greatly; so many; a lot of

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to be lacking in options; to be too few

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recorder (e.g. tape recorder, time recorder); recording device; recorder (musical instrument); English flute

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Taxi Driver

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to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through

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