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precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed

2

established theory; accepted opinion; accepted explanation

1

knowing; (an) acquaintance

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dear me!; good gracious!; well; let me see; now

1

appetite (for food)

1

sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)

1

among (them); of (them)

1

perfect; complete

1

extinction; annihilation; destruction

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idiom; set phrase; idiomatic phrase

1

dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation

1

old-fashioned; behind the times; out-of-date; antiquated

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used article (esp. clothes)

1

cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman

1

to keep company; to listen to; to associate with; to play against (e.g. a team); to take on (e.g. a rival)

1

extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out

1

feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)

1

degeneration; retrogression

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to compare (something) to; to liken; to speak figuratively; to use a simile; to use a metaphor

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at that (very) moment; just then

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channel (e.g. between two land masses); strait

2

bourgeois society

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to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include

1

awkward

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albatross (esp. the short-tailed albatross, Phoebastria albatrus)

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Charles Baudelaire

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same; similar; (just) like; equal

1

middle

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(a) step; one step; level; stage; small degree; small amount

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falling from a horse

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unskilled; clumsy; lousy; poor; awkward; shitty

1

counter for horsemen

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knight; keima (in go); knight's move; stone placed at a knight's jump from another stone of the same color

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to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)

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The Hunting of the Snark

4

monster

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exploration; expedition

1

finally; after; following; at the end (of)

1

life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood

1

middle of summer; height of summer; midsummer

1

clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.

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to wear extra clothes; to dress formally

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faint; swoon

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blockhead; dunce; dimwit; dolt; slowcoach; slowpoke

1

anti-; hater

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hero

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comedian; actor who plays comic roles; figure of fun; laughing stock

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self-portrait

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guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests

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spiritual life; inner life; mental life

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