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well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person

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to be in sight (e.g. a resolution); to have a clear idea; to have bright prospects

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internal; domestic

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project; enterprise; business; (arch.) act; (arch.) deed; (arch.) conduct

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very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly

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logistics; supply; communications

2

admonition; remonstrance; expostulation

4

betrayer

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when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives

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lawfulness; propriety; reasonableness; appropriateness; legality; legitimacy

1

automatic

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concern; business

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how; in what way

2

Kélo, Chad

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to be fit (for a role); to be qualified (for); to be equal (to a task); to be able to fulfill one's duties (as)

4

to incline one's head

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game

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fraud; trickery; hoax; swindle; counterfeit; fake

2

sorcerer; wizard; mage

4

hermit; recluse

2

deck (of playing cards on table, face down, from which cards are drawn); stack; draw pile; tag verifying one has permission to take plants and trees from common land (Edo period)

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long-serving soldier; veteran

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your will; your pleasure; your wish; certainly; as you say; you are quite right

1

elect (select) few

2

successively; one after another; sequentially; one by one

2

eternal truth

1

desirable; hoped for; preferable; advisable

1

influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne

1

suddenly; abruptly; slowly; leisurely; deliberately

1

to rack one's brain

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making noodles by hand; striking a deal; coming to an agreement; killing with bare hands

1

leader of a delegation (body, party)

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resentment; grudge; pent-up anger; frustration; bitterness

4

vacuum; hollow; empty

2

spanking; traditional ceremony where the newly-wed wife, upon entering her new home, is hit on the rump with a straw bundle etc., to ensure her fertility

1

January; first month of the lunar calendar

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affluent; branch stream that flows into a main stream

1

to be lit (e.g. candle, lamp, light bulb); to be lighted; to be burning

2

symbol; sign; (secret) price mark; secret language; code

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anything and everything; just about everything

1

to arrange beforehand; to make a sign to each other; to conspire

1

viscosity

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to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else

2

salmon (Salmonidae spp.); chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)

1

to pin the enemy down; to glare another down (and render impotent)

2

jumping about; rampancy; domination

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at the same time; at a time; at one time; simultaneously

2

statesman; administrator; politician; policymaker

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telecommunications; correspondence

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at a glance; by accident

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