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seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand

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to become angry or sullen; to take offense; to be miffed; to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off

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... is the reason; ... is my excuse

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liking; taste; choice

2

complaint; quibble; niggle; finding fault; false accusation

1

being concerned about or mindful of

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thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article

1

general; popular; common; typical

2

people; men and women; each person; everybody

1

rare; seldom

1

creative work (e.g. artistic, literary)

1

one by one; one after another; successively

1

incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling

1

many; numerous; various; large number of

3

why; how

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otherwise; if not; or else

1

not worth considering; out of the question

1

bang on the money; spot on; right answer

1

fiction

2

cover; lid; cap

1

to throw oneself (into an activity)

1

encounter; being confronted with (e.g. difficulty); meeting with (e.g. accident)

1

creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention

1

so to speak; so to call it; as it were

1

big shot; higher-ups

1

protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household

1

police officer; policeman; policewoman

1

to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through

1

science fiction; sci-fi; SF

1

both; (not) either

1

detective; investigator; sleuth; detective work; secret investigation

5

intention; aim; design

1

clear; clear-cut; lucid; unequivocal; explicit

1

near oneself; close to one; familiar

1

very interesting; of great interest

2

locked-room murder (e.g. in murder mystery fiction)

3

failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards

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kanji compound; idiom; idiomatic phrase

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one's mind

3

switching on and off (of a light); flashing; blinking; flickering

1

theatre; theater; playhouse

1

public (attention, recognition, etc.); social (standing, acceptance, etc.); worldly (fame, desires, etc.)

1

narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining

1

to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase

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supernatural

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to make a mistake (in); to commit an error; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to mislead; to misguide

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sea slug (various orthogastropod species, esp. of order Nudibranchia); nudibranch

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to step on; to trample down; to tread on

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sanity; consciousness; soberness

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moderate

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