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Roma (people); Romani

25

vagrancy; wandering; nomadism

2

people; citizens; subjects; folk

1

to oppress; to persecute; to tyrannize

1

people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos

2

four (long cylindrical things)

2

to give birth to; to drop (a calf, foal, etc.); to lay (an egg)

1

far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry

2

countries; (various) nations

1

wandering; roaming; drifting

1

musical performance

1

arts; crafts; handicrafts

1

settlement; permanent residency

1

Romania; Rumania

2

pillow; bolster; introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story); lead-in

1

to explain; to preach; to advocate; to persuade; to prevail upon; to reason with

1

teaching; instruction; teachings; precept; lesson; doctrine

1

different race; different ethnic group; different peoples

1

plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place

1

advance warning; previous notice; prior announcement; herald; harbinger; forerunner

1

tent

1

to run about frantically trying to escape; to run this way and that to make one's escape

2

cross (for crucifixion); the Cross (of Christ)

1

spear; lance; javelin; lance; (arch.) jeering

1

to hold (someone) down; to pin down; to wrestle to the ground

1

in a crowd; ganging up (on); joining forces

2

simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated

1

long ago

2

to lean against; to lean on; to recline on; to lie heavy (on the stomach); to be uneasily digested

2

to commit seppuku; to commit harakiri; to take responsibility (and resign); (arch.) to laugh until one splits one's side

1

dying breath; dying whisper; being at death's door

2

in comparison with; when compared with; according to; in light of; in view of

1

to live (of animals); to inhabit; to nest

1

to sniff out; to get wind of

3

every one (of them); (one and) all; without exception; to a man; to the last person

1

to get blurry vision; to get bleary eyes; to get dim eyesight

1

counterattack; counteroffensive; counterblow

2

to eat greedily; to devour; to wolf down; to gobble up

1

(lit.) blood flows; to have the blood of ... running in one's veins (artist, warrior, etc.); to be born with particular skills, characteristics, etc.; to have something "in one's blood"

2

to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)

1

to touch (a person's) heart; to impress (a person)

1

party; banquet; feast

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code; program; code; regulation; code; symbol set; cord

1

cedar wood

1

neck; bottleneck; obstruction; neckline

2

Egypt

1

origin; birthplace; descent; lineage; ancestry

1

to lie; to pretend; to feign; to deceive; to trick

1

just; justifiable; right; due; proper; equitable

1

to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum

1