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inquiry into; enquiry into; prying (into); investigation; search; exploration

2

door; gate; opening; title page

8

to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen

7

Donald Brown (anthropologist)

1

assistant; associate; duplicate; copy; adverb

5

section chief; laboratory manager; office head; room monitor

5

we

15

about; concerning; related to; -ish

6

surname; family name; hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)

1

relation; connection

4

report; information

3

being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

1

fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity

1

remnants; survivors; refugees; pocket (of resistance)

2

lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship

1

anyhow; in any case

1

to take root

1

ancestor

1

to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)

1

circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances

12

traces; evidence

2

underworld; underside of society

2

though; although; be that as it may; nonetheless

1

combination; assortment; matching (in a contest); pairing; combination

1

nightmare; bad dream

3

have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than

4

leaving out; omitting; skipping; (beating) in succession; in a row

2

internal; domestic

2

leading; prominent; eminent; counting on one's fingers

4

through; throughout; through (the good offices of); by way of

2

pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe

1

to be visible; to be clear; to be evident; to be certain

2

to come to mind; to pop into one's head

2

hey!; oi!; ahoy!; I; me

14

especially; particularly; surely; clearly; as if; as though

3

Sicilian Mafia

3

Italian (language)

2

origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology

1

Italy

3

each; respectively

4

genealogy; lineage; family tree; pedigree

2

Al Capone

1

gangster

3

all-America; pan-American; all of America

2

to make one's name well known; to gain much fame

1

Lucky Luciano

1

to play a leading role; to play a central part

4

to go underground; to go into hiding

1

to be conspicuous; to stand out

4

(following a verb) to be sure to; to do (something) so that ...; to make sure to; to try to

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