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1

to make clear; to clarify; to disclose; to make public

1

thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...

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hard to please; moody; crusty; fastidious

2

even

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terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific

6

very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave

11

frown; scowl; grimace

1

grandfather; male senior-citizen

3

first meeting; first interview with

1

imagination; supposition; guess

14

in comparison to; rather than

26

friendly; openhearted; sociable; amiable; good-humored; good-humoured

1

complaint

1

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

4

to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter

2

uncharacteristic; unbefitting; unworthy (of)

2

reproachful; resentful; spiteful

3

horror

3

-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of

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evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights

1

to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone

6

human sacrifice; victim

4

victim

2

to substitute for; to stand in for; to fill in for

1

explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend

24

thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; jab

4

to whirl; to eddy; to be all jumbled together (feelings, thoughts, etc.); to surge; to sweep

1

tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable

11

severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)

6

sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)

1

gay person (esp. male)

5

stupid; foolish; idiotic; fool; idiot; blockhead

2

shelving; pigeonholing

1

apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize

2

really; truly; indeed; good grief

14

line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)

1

disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant

5

presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch

3

borrowing; debt; loan

1

university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

4

lecture

1

interpretation (i.e. oral translation); interpreter

1

lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend

4

to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved

6

heartbreak; grief; sorrow

1

don't try and tell me that!; don't try that shit on me

1

all night long; all through the night

1

pipe; tube

1

to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt

2