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to be bony; to be angular

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smallish; on the small side; somewhat small; short swing of a bat, racquet, etc.

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breast; udder

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to crumple (up); to wrinkle; to rub thoroughly

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to cry and shout; to scream

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to pollute; to contaminate; to soil; to disgrace; to dishonour; to dishonor

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to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely

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to shrivel (e.g. cut vegetables, skin); to wilt; to fade; to wither; to be wizened

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being in abstraction; being dazed; being absentminded; stargazing

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to stagger; to stumble; to totter; to misconduct oneself; to have a love affair; to waver

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rendezvous; tryst; (lover's) meeting; (secret) date

2

anguished; distressed; worried; horny

1

every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)

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several months

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ill-bred; poorly brought up

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to hang; to droop; to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status); to confer; to drip; to ooze; to leave behind (at death)

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odds and ends; all; every

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to be awarded (e.g. a prize); to be given an award; to be gifted or endowed (e.g. with a talent); to be blessed (e.g. with a child); to be initiated (e.g. into a secret)

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to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)

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half a year; six months

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ridge of earth between rice fields; ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel; footpath between rice fields; causeway

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still; even now; to this day

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to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by

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sign; indication; trace; somehow; for some reason; seeming to be

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branch family; cadet family; establishing a branch family

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wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law

1

to show in; to usher in

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to avoid being seen; to be clandestine

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to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)

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end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring

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lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication

4

to explain clearly; to give detailed instructions

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new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)

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area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line) (1940s-1956)

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unlicensed prostitute

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street; quarter; district; area

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Anti-Prostitution Law

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execution; enforcing; carrying out; giving alms; giving food to the poor or monks

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to go underground; to go into hiding

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abortion; feticide

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baby

5

prostitute; harlot

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to lie; to cheat; to pretend; to trick; to deceive

1

rice seedling

8

to name

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(growing) quickly (esp. children, plants); (developing) quickly; fast; rapidly

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20 years old; (arch.) twenty

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to aggravate; to complicate; to make worse

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to take over; to hand over

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seeming sad

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