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refusal; rejection; denial; veto

2

alone; by oneself; on one's own

1

empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless

1

life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life

2

to dream (i.e. while asleep); to have a dream; to dream (of the future); to have a fleeting experience

4

hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently

2

to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than

9

to talk to oneself; to mutter

1

last years of one's life; very late in one's life

1

last days; the end; one's fate

1

reality

1

bitter (taste); sour (expression, look); bitter; bitter (e.g. experience); painful

5

young girl; lass; adolescent female

3

it may be because

1

to laugh scornfully

2

to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray

2

joke; jest; gag

1

dirt cheap; very cheap

2

superior; first-class; excellent; (that's) just fine!; bring it on!

2

tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)

1

loser; failure; underdog; unmarried and childless older woman

1

conventional phrase; stock phrase; cliché

2

back tooth; molar

1

to chew thoroughly; to bite (e.g. one's lip); to reflect upon; to digest

1

profit-and-loss arithmetic; calculating profit and loss; mercenary point of view

1

to set (someone) up (in a high position); to kick upstairs; to hold sacred; to worship; to flatter

1

ridicule; scorn

1

great difference; big difference; wide margin

1

warmth

1

one's last moment; one's death; one's end

2

while it may be true that; just because; nevertheless; not necessarily

2

moneymaking; earning money

3

loss-cutting; cutting one's losses

1

oneself (itself, etc.); I; me; you; by oneself (itself, etc.); interjection expressing anger or chagrin

1

sense of values; values; value system

2

to shake; to swing; to sway; to shock

2

secondary; of secondary importance

1

to omit; to leave out; to overtake; to pass; to say; to speak

1

sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

5

route; road; distance travelled in a day; one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s)

1

priceless; invaluable

1

adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing

1

crisis awareness; sense of impending crisis

1

to catch fire; to be ignited; to ignite; to flare up (of an emotion, controversy, etc.); to blaze; to be ignited (of a dispute, commotion, etc.)

1

one bag

1

rising; ascending; climbing

2

political measures; policy

1

in conflict; incompatible; out of harmony; running counter; mutually exclusive; clashing with

1

shipping charges; transportation expenses

1

irrational; illogical; unreasonable; absurd; inconsistent

1