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useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated

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food; provisions; nourishment (mental, spiritual, etc.); sustenance (e.g. of one's life); source of encouragement

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stage (platform); performance; show; stage (phase); part; stage

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territory; domain; field; area; domain; region

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cloudiness; cloudy weather; fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); gloom; dejection

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to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying

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righteousness; justice; right

3

to trample underfoot; to tread on; to crush with a foot

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to sweep clean; to brush clean

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to collect (e.g. one's thoughts); to get in order

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order; sequence; procedure

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to look daunted; to look embarrassed; to be disappointed

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black curtain; wirepuller; mastermind; backroom manipulator

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second son

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heyday; golden age

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shibori; tie-dye; aperture; aperture stop; contraction; squeezing

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dregs; sediment; lees (esp. sake); leftovers; by-product; worthless item; junk

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to pass; to pass by

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time; years; days; the Moon and the Sun

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to wait and see; to sit on the fence; to be noncommittal

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different person; another person; someone else; changed man

2

quite unlike; not bearing the slightest resemblance

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to grow old

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just managing; with great difficulty

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speech; address

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shortage; amount outstanding (e.g. on loan); deficit

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loser; the defeated

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challenger

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restoration; return; reduction; resolution; deoxidization

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spark

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to be no match for; to not hold a candle to

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one or two sizes (bigger, etc.); one or two levels (better, more mature, etc.)

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swelling; enlargement

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opening fully; full throttle; full power

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to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block

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to slide into; to slip into

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huge rock; crag

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power

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to go through (e.g. a wall); to penetrate; to punch (a hole, pattern, etc.); to stamp out (e.g. a coin); to remove (partitions between rooms); to join (multiple rooms) into one

3

moreover; in addition

1

to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)

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to grimace; to make a wry face; to contort one's face

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(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum

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seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles

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standing comparison with; comparing favorably with; by no means inferior to; equal to

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useless resistance; vain struggle

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impudent; cheeky

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joy; delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing

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before one knows it; without realizing; unawares; unnoticed

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white; striped mullet fry (Mugil cephalus); (spoken) line (in a play, film, etc.); one's lines; white dragon tile; winning hand with a pung (or kong) of white dragon tiles; Belgium

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