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to be found; to be discovered

7

one's home; one's house

7

several weeks; a few weeks

1

to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate

3

to smoke a cigarette

2

arms and ammunition; weapons and ammunition

6

charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage

3

choosing a site (e.g. for industry); deciding on a location; standpoint; position

1

leader; guide; mentor; coach

1

monster

13

to follow; to accompany; to cleave to; to join up with; to obey implicitly; to flatter

1

mad dog

2

incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling

3

composition

2

to shrug one's shoulders

7

middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

10

trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support

1

what

4

to prune; to trim; to reap (a crop) and put into storage; to harvest; to prune (a manuscript); to cut down

1

lawn; grass

1

column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude

1

period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years); apprenticeship; indentureship; indenture

1

ghastliness; dreadfulness; grimness; intimidation; menace; threat

1

to dwell; to live; to stay at; to take shelter at; to be pregnant; to be part of a constellation

1

police investigator; investigator

17

hunter

133

impressions; thoughts; feelings; reactions

4

case; situation

3

support; backing

4

edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)

31

to grimace; to frown

1

Kanto; region consisting of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures; Kanto; north-eastern half of Japan (during the feudal era)

3

influence; power; might; strength; potency; force

3

east

14

rearing from infancy; training from an early age (e.g. an apprentice); teaching from an early stage (e.g. a subordinate)

2

sales; selling; marketing

3

source of income

1

acting as agent; acting on (someone's) behalf; executing business for

1

placement; fixed position; mapping out; location

1

it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?

2

origin; source; birthplace; release from prison; discharge from prison; exit

5

one thin flat object; one sheet

2

to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)

4

to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)

10

conspiracy; collusion

1

to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up

2

to grumble; to complain

10

to let leak; to let out (e.g. light); to let out (a secret); to leak (information); to give utterance to (e.g. one's dissatisfaction); to vent; to wet one's pants

15

frontal attack

2

protection; defense; providence; amulet; charm

3