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group engaged in some activity (players, companies, forces, etc.)

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shrill voice

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calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")

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contact address

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personal information

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erasure; striking off; crossing out; cancellation; deletion

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polite; courteous; hospitable

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disposal; throwing away; dealing with (a problem); measure; punishment; penalty

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certified (as genuine, valuable, etc.); guaranteed (article); of established reputation; acknowledged; pièce de résistance

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say; well; um; er

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free time; time at leisure

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seducer; smooth talker; picking up women; hitting on women; moderate party; moderate

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management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome

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pig farm; hog farm; piggery

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pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty

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as if; as though

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immediately; right away; on the spot

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dispersing; breaking up; running away

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bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer

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scuttling (to escape in a panic, in shame, etc.); scurrying; scrambling

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to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend

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husky voice

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characteristic

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bitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh

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feeling startled; getting a shock; prank; practical joke

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self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person

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to choose at one's own discretion; to choose when to do something; to estimate (the time for something)

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placard

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suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows

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to aggravate; to complicate; to make worse

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arrival (of post, news, correspondence, etc.); receiving (a phone call, email, etc.)

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maple (tree) (Acer spp.)

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to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)

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low voice; whisper

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long

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good (quality, condition, etc.); Good (grade); B

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false name; alias; assumed name; pseudonym

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terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful

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real name

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luxury; extravagance; to live in luxury; to indulge oneself; lavish (use of something); abundant

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to go out and away; to leave

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doubt; skepticism; scepticism; disbelief

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shock; impact; crash

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mediator; go-between; middleman; broker

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whispered conversation; whispering

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to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass

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unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible

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laughing at an inappropriate time; not being able to hold back one's laughter; scornful laughter; snicker; snigger

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being put off (by someone's words, behaviour, etc.); being taken aback; recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.); zooming out or pulling the camera back to get a wider image (in film and TV)

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in either case (used specifically in the instance of two possible outcomes or situations); either way; one way or another

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