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family; members of a family

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another family; another house

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bargaining; haggling; tactics; strategy

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to trouble; to bother; to annoy; to give trouble

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top; summit; vertex

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reigning; controlling; dictating

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eldest daughter; first-born daughter

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often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently

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marriage proposal; marriage talks

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to come fluttering in (e.g. leaves, snow, flowers, etc.); to come dancing in; to drop in unexpectedly; to happen unexpectedly

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herself; she herself

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comparison

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being outstanding; excelling; being foremost

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(having great) expectation; pinning one's hopes on

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thoroughbred (horse); person of lineage; blue-blood

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in addition

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to carry on one's back; to burden oneself (e.g. with debts, responsibilities, etc.)

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wick; marrow; core; heart; pistil (of a flower); stamen

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tough

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to go over the top; to act without restraint; to cut loose

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to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by

3

pretense of evil; pretence of evil

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shy

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to meet face-to-face

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to knock down; to knock out

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panel; wainscoting; wainscotting; plight; fix; bind

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therefore; for that reason; such being the case

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escalation

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something or other; one thing or another; this or that

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to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task

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to look towards

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window-side

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does not seem; unlikely; improbable

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vista; background; perspective; distant view

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focus (e.g. photographic); focal point

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especially; above all; inter alia; among others

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cool (temperature, color, etc.); cool (i.e. calm and collected); cool (i.e. fashionable, attractive, etc.); course (of medical treatment); season (series) of a television program (usu. 13 installments over a 3-month period)

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to look after; to take care (of); to favor; to gaze at; to stare at; to set one's eyes on

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to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations

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peremptorily; willy-nilly; forcibly

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main course (of a river); mainstream; main current (e.g. of thought)

3

producing (people) in great numbers; appearing one after the other

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throne; crown; government position; court rank; social standing; rank; grade (of quality, etc.)

4

feeble joke; bad pun

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to rank next to; to come after

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social standing of a family; lineage; parentage; good family

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to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

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miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling

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in great numbers

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via; through; by doing; by means of; using

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