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rate of advancement to the next higher level of education

1

noted family; noble family; prestigious school, organization, business, etc.

1

idle complaint; grumble; moha (ignorance, folly)

2

seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

1

to dust; to remove dust; to slap; to hit (with the palm); to use up money

6

hard luck; misfortune

1

leaving early

5

plague; black plague

1

dysentery

1

typhoid fever

1

concurrence; coincidence; complication (in illness)

1

quick pace

3

to get excited; to get hyped up; to become happy; to get in a good mood

1

without looking aside; looking neither right nor left; wholeheartedly; single-mindedly

3

lung

4

exploitation; overuse; abuse

2

half-holiday; sixth round (in a game of 12 rounds)

1

walk; stroll

46

private high school

1

silent (as the grave); deadly silent; deathly quiet

2

wintry sky; cold weather (in winter); wintry weather

4

dangling; aimlessly; casually; unexpectedly

1

stern; grave; austere; strict (e.g. security); severe; firm

2

guard; security (officer); guardsman

3

barbed wire

1

had better ...; had better not ...

1

to be caught

1

to get used to hearing

3

stand-up collar

3

to hurry on one's way

2

ratio; proportion; percentage

3

what; how; what (a) ...!; how ...!; surprisingly; to my amazement

3

half and half; fifty-fifty

2

scarecrow; figurehead; dummy

2

to make out with; to make cozy with (cosy); to do at one's own discretion

3

the internal organs

1

insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising

2

Zoroaster

1

uneasy feeling; sense of anxiety; malaise

2

myth; legend

5

(on the) street

1

religious group

1

straw

2

worthless; pointless; useless

3

bog; marsh; swamp; quandary; dire situation from which one cannot extricate oneself; imbroglio

2

impatience

4

ten-odd; a dozen or so

7

wind and rain; rainstorm

3

the unthinkable

1

lantana (plant, flower); hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla); kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times

1