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menial; meanness; servility; abject

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light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous

2

asking; enquiring; searching; looking for

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dry; dry (tone, humour, etc.); unemotional; dry (of alcohol)

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discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment

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arrival; coming (e.g. something awaited); advent

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corner; section; one horn; narwhal (Monodon monoceros)

1

to become used to seeing; to be familiar with

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to make a lovely picture; to be perfect for a picture; picture-perfect; picturesque

1

unpredictability; element of surprise

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diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing

1

degree of attention; profile

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implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation

1

to cease; to stop; to be over

1

newsworthiness; news hook; topicality; popularity (of a topic, issue, etc.)

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or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean

2

after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means

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not quite (right); not very good; somewhat (lacking)

2

unable to stomach; sticking in one's throat; displeased with

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lower floor; downstairs; bottom of the stairs; foot of the stairs

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(emotional) tension; anxiety; (highness of) spirits; (good) mood; tension; tensile strength

1

to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak

1

important person; strategic person; key figure

1

succession; continuation; series; sequence

2

curtain; bunting; act (in play)

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to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)

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quiet (place); still; silent; inconspicuously; modestly; quietly

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in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs

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to disappear; to vanish; to abscond; to decamp

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to settle (a problem)

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toilet; restroom; bathroom; lavatory

8

secret language; jargon; cant; argot; slang

1

concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every

1

to hold (an event); to give (a dinner, party, etc.); to feel (sensation, emotion, call of nature, etc.); to show signs of

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uneventfully; without incident; without a hitch; peacefully

1

extensive; spacious

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ventilation; airflow

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small window; fenestella; scuttle (type of hatch on a ship)

1

although

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going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease

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physical

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to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush

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all on one's own

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this area; around here

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fist

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crystal; crystallization; crystallisation; fruits (of labor, union, etc.)

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manna; mana

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tremor; fluctuation

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perception; sensing; noticing

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to shut in; to confine; to contain

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