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decider; person who decides; decisive factor; clincher; key

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pepper

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to flavor; to flavour; to season

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salt and pepper; seasoning with salt and pepper

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tomato sauce

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completion; finish; workmanship; result; outcome

2

to have an audience (with); to have an interview (with); to meet; to see

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reinforcements; reserve troops; rear guard; attacking from the rear; pincer movement from the back

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al dente

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somewhat hard; somewhat firm; fairly hard; on the hard side

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to gulp down (alcohol, poison, etc.); to quaff; to down

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Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean sea (oceanography)

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to smell; to smell of; to have a smell

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small; little; slightly less than; just about; somewhat; somehow

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marine products; seafood; fish and shellfish

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scolding; telling-off; rebuke; complaint; grumbling; fault-finding

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water content; moisture; water vapor (vapour); steam; dropsy; edema

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sampling food; tasting; trying

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sublimation; sublimation (of an impulse); sublimation (i.e. transforming into a purer or nobler form)

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reconstruction; rebuilding; restructuring

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to couch (a sword); to look at cynically or ironically; (arch.) to stand ready (to do); (arch.) to adopt a formal attitude

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Colosseum (amphitheatre in Rome); coliseum (large stadium)

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since; for the past ... (e.g. ten years); this person; this gentleman

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grizzled; (hair) streaked with grey (gray)

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France

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Pierre

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French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman

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artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)

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participants; participating athletes

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food processor

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stupid; meaningless; worthless; hopeless (person, situation); beyond help; beyond saving

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challenger

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to act as an opposite; to form a counterpart; to act as a twin

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for fun; half in jest

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this and that; one thing or another

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with a creak; creakily

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common dace (Leuciscus leuciscus)

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pipe; tube; bobbin (in a shuttle or spinning wheel)

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food; provisions; nourishment (mental, spiritual, etc.); sustenance (e.g. of one's life); source of encouragement

3

rice cooker and warmer

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(mixture of) ground beef and pork

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mixer (audio, concrete, etc.); blender (usu. countertop)

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to intend; to be sure that

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meat-based hot pot; pan or pot for cooking meat

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pig; pork

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imperious; proud

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border (between countries); national border

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small theatre; kabuki performed in a small theatre; little performance; short acted scene; act

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undisputed; entirely; perfect

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Kiki's Delivery Service (1989 animated film)

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