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enjoyment; pleasure; amusement; anticipation; looking forward to; something to look forward to

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message

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to ask a question; to begin to ask a question

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decisively; decidedly; boldly; precisely; exactly

1

to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind

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pre-established harmony (Leibniz theory); harmonie préétablie; (events) proceeding in a predictable fashion; turning out the way everyone expected; convention

4

final; eventual; ultimate

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comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery

1

trick; plot device; mystery-fiction trope

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to suit; to match; to become; to be like

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to finish; to end; to close

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state of mind; mentality; psychology

1

underhand grip (e.g. in gymnastics, etc.); cross-handed grip (e.g. in golf, etc.); using one's hands backwards from their conventional positioning; reverse grip (e.g. of a sword); turning the tables (on an opponent); reverse arm-lock (in judo); joint lock

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very; very much; greatly; considerably; highly; exceedingly

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to explain adequately; to be accountable

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countermeasure; counter-measure

2

evasion; avoidance; shirking; recusation (of a judge); taking exception (to a judge); challenge

1

readiness to die; (in the) face of death

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to be fragrant; to smell (good); to stink; to smell (bad); to glow; to be bright

4

to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on

2

inorganic matter; mineral matter; cold; inhuman; robotic

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lonely

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monologue; soliloquy; talking to oneself

1

huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion

1

brain; brains; mind

1

development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape); extraction (of compressed data)

1

few decades; many decades; several decades

1

legend; folklore; tradition

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old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

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stratum; geological formation; layer; bed (coal, gravel, etc.)

1

uprooting; pulling up (a plant) by the roots; eradicating; rooting out; all (destroyed, stolen, etc.); completely

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to take (something) along; to bring with one; to carry (something) away; to bear

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(powers of) concentration; ability to concentrate

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attentiveness

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anything and everything; just about everything

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to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)

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(time of) one's childhood; when one was a child

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scholar; academic; scientist; learned person; person of learning

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imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing

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to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)

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vagrant habits; vagabondism; wanderlust

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reflexive; reflecting

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to hesitate to; to waver; to be hesitant about

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to ask; to enquire; to query

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diadem; jeweled crown

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koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)

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counter for scraps, fragments, petals, etc.

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present; gift

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curse; spell; malediction

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nonburnable garbage; nonflammables

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