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slightly early; just before

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arriving first

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dull (e.g. of movement or reaction); sluggish

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restless; fidgety; in a hurry

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giving up on winning a hand and discarding only safe tiles

2

to get tired of waiting

1

attack; offence; dominant partner of a homosexual relationship; a barrage of; a flood of

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reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight

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pressure; stress; pressure (e.g. political); coercion; arm-twisting

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loudly (flinging open a door); with a clatter; with a crash (e.g. of a falling structure); completely (change); utterly; louvre window (door, vent, etc.)

4

Euston railway station

3

suspicious phone call

1

young turtle (tortoise); turtle (tortoise) shell

1

to dent; to indent; to depress; to humiliate

1

totteringly; with tottering steps; toddling

1

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

1

to resound; to echo; to reverberate

2

corpulence; fatness; obesity

1

plump; with a thud; heavily

3

to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand); to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)

1

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

1

middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

2

to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

3

fearfully; nervously; timidly; gingerly

2

state ceremony; laborious; troublesome; irksome

1

polish; improvement; burnishing

1

to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up

2

to get tired; to become exhausted; to become worn out; to become battered (from long use); to get tired of (doing); to get fed up with

2

golf course; golf links

1

obstacle; hurdle

1

methodical; precise; meticulous; wooden post that has been carved to have a rounded corner with grooves running along either side of it

1

to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)

1

popularity; public favor; condition (e.g. market); tone; character

1

beam running between columns in traditional Japanese architecture, esp. within Japanese-style rooms

1

cloth-covered

1

winding; meandering; wriggling; wiggling; waving; swaying

1

mood

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knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes

7

(much) more than others; exceedingly; extremely; unusually

2

confusing people; magic; ghost, monster, etc., the true identity of which is unknown

1

waiting room; anteroom; antechamber; green room

1

effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)

2

short-tempered; quick-tempered; hasty

1

immediately; promptly

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paying attention to; catching one's eye

2

to haul in (hand over hand); to pull in; to draw in; to trace (history, threads of a story, etc.); to retrace (e.g. memories); to go over

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National Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1947-); Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947); legislative assembly; parliament

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racehorse

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to win; to gain victory

1

seldom; rarely; scarcely

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