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thumb-marked; well-used; well-thumbed; worn-out (e.g. joke); stale; hackneyed

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company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.

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edition; version; plate; block; editions of a publication

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Hazlitt

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essayist

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essay

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collection; compilation

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blank space; margin; blank canvas

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signature

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handwriting; calligraphy specimen; example of penmanship; holograph

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to fill in (field, entry, etc.); to fill out (form); to post a message (e.g. on a bulletin-board); to store; to write (data); to flash

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reading (books)

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cultivation; refinement; culture; education

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to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with

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amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute

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opinion; point of view

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to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please

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showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay

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hotel

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followers; hangers-on

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to be pedantic; to assume the air of a scholar

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1,000; thousand

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to bring; to take; to bring about

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father

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southwestern part; the southwest

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Bristol (Britain)

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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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(academic) excellence; superiority; honors (e.g. graduating with); cum laude

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

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medical science; medicine

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to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport

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blunder; bungle; gaffe

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southern part; the south (of a region)

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shrewd; astute; cunning; alert

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to pilfer; to filch; to swipe

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idea; plan; fancy; impulse; thought; whim

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assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)

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to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to put an end to; to deliver the final blow; to be the best for A

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to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to be confused from not knowing what to do

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to be dazzled by; to be dizzied by; to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.); (arch.) to become dark

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all people; everybody; ten thousand people

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crash into; clash

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slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark

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while; even though; despite

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to sparkle; to glitter; to twinkle

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old type; old style

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two people using the same (vehicle) (often two on a bike)

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rattle; rattling sound

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operation (of a machine, etc.); operating; driving; working (capital, etc.)

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to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)

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