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pretext for not revealing something (e.g. actual reason for one's failure, vested interest, etc.)

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to pay

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details; particulars; longitude and latitude; warp and weft; warp and woof

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Tokyo

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head office; main office; main store; this store; our store

1

luxurious; magnificent; extravagant; sumptuous

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store's appearance (esp. shop front, signs, etc.)

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Chinese food

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store; shop; restaurant

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evening meal; dinner

2

to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that

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Peking duck

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Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis)

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shark fin

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(Western) soup

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economical; economy size; family size (esp. of packaged food)

1

import; importation; introduction; afferent

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boneless pork rib; boned pork rib

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freezing; cold storage; refrigeration

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standard of living

1

to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than

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original form; base form

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to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to wince; to shrink back

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store; shop; establishment; restaurant

1

way of eating; how to eat

1

to frown (on); to be grim-faced; to look sullen

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forcibly; against one's will

2

to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade

3

personal; individual; private

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business card

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one's home; one's house

1

to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard

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immediately; as soon as possible; as quickly as possible

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to distance oneself (from); to keep (something or someone) at a distance; to maintain a distance (from)

2

pulpy; soppy; sloppy; untidy; in a disarray

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to see someone off (at a station, an airport, etc.); to escort (e.g. home); to follow something with one's eyes until it is out of sight; to let pass; to pass up (an opportunity etc.); to shelve (a plan, deliberation on a bill, etc.); to postpone

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to jar; to creak; to grate

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gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail

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fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light; person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake

2

dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly

2

moth

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to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation

1

crackling (of fire, fireworks, etc.); sparking; sputtering; to fight; to argue

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flapping sound (of wings); fluttering; hum (of insects); whizz (of a flying arrow); whoosh

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head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host

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in deep black; in jet black

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sheet; bed sheet

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to engrave; to carve out

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substance; real form; main part; main unit; this machine; this appliance; object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.)

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to fold up; to fold into layers

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