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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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prayer; supplication

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to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; (lit.) to make (grind) one's body into dust

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to want; to desire

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difference in elevation (between two points in a body of water); head; drop (e.g. of a waterfall); difference; gap

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acceptance

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to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to

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to become hungry; to get an empty stomach

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sashimi; make-up

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frivolous; flippant; superficial; shallow; trifling; insincere

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to congratulate

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to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to put an end to; to deliver the final blow; to be the best for A

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to pick at; to peck at

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to brace oneself; to focus one's energies; to focus one's mind

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languorous; weary; listless; somber; sombre; gloomy

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root vegetable

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smoked food; smoking (fish, meat, etc.); smoked

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plate; dish (of food)

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worldly wisdom; secret of success in life

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funeral

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sale; selling; selling point; gimmick; seller; vendor

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image of a bride dressed in her wedding gown (wedding kimono, etc.)

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to play house

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guardian

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sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement

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(appropriate for) one's age

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easily moved to tears; given to weeping; lachrymose

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chrysalis; pupa

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to compare and contrast two alternatives; to weigh the relative merits of A and B; to weigh one's options; to try to have it both ways; to try to sit on two stools

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mad (with grief, love, etc.); crazy; out of one's mind; on the verge of insanity

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weeping; lamenting

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to come out (e.g. hair); to fall out; to collapse (e.g. building, floor); to be left out; to be omitted

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to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else

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to hold a child in one's arms; to embrace a child; to provide for a child (children)

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grandmother

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grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen

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life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life

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loving; caring; devoted

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that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you

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14; fourteen

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great-grandchild

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(verbal) message; sending word; (arch.) excuse; (arch.) pretext

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sense of justice

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illicit love

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pangs of conscience

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to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of

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good prospects; full of hope; promising

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cooperative; helpful

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crude; philistine; uncultivated; uneducated; vulgar

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standing firmly against

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