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mystery novel; detective novel; whodunit

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in all

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500; five hundred; many

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page

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oh my god!; oh my gosh!; you got me!; wow!

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missing page

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terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

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Chebat

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running time (e.g. of movie)

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last; final; end; conclusion; rust

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climax

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sense of security

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breaking off; snapping off; suddenly stopping

1

absurd; irrational; unreasonable; absurdity (philosophy)

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to connect; to tie; to fasten; to transfer (phone call)

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to excuse oneself; to take one's leave; to resign (post); to quit; to decline; to turn down

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Hollywood

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departure; departing (from ...); sending; sent (by ...); engine; counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.

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heroine

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actress; female actor

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hijack; highjack

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building highjack (hostage situation)

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alien

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great detective

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measuring; measurement

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abrupt; sudden

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to pretend

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to charge; to lunge; to flare up (at someone); to turn on (someone); to collide with; to bump into

1

fundamental; basic

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law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale

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law of contradiction (logic)

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to mistake one thing for another; to mix up two things; to confuse two things; to misunderstand; to misapprehend

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distrust of (other) human beings

2

it seems that; as if

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to be peevish; to sulk; to pout

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likes and dislikes; pickiness (about food); choosiness; fussiness; tastes; preferences

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food

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delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient

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troublesome; difficult (e.g. customer, guest, child); laborious (e.g. task, dinner)

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oh, OK; oh, I see; oh, yeah?; hmm

1

be; is

2

defense; defence; safeguard; protection

2

to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over

1

to turn away (one's eyes, face, etc.); to avert; to displease; to annoy; to miss (the target, ball, etc.)

1

considerably; greatly; a lot

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to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to go down (sun); to wane; to sink

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to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)

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to become stiff (of muscles); to get absorbed in; to develop a passion for; to be elaborate; to be intricate

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unidentifiable; unidentified

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skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery

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