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to wet oneself; to be miserly; to be stingy

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salty; calculating; stingy; scowling; grimacing; hoarse

2

fruit wine (e.g. cider, wine, plum liquor); fruit liqueur

4

to let slip; to slide; to glide

1

doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness

3

after (practically) no time; immediately after; just; having no time to

2

to appear on the stage

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I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ...

3

(powers of) concentration; ability to concentrate

1

to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause

1

steam; vapour; vapor; steamboat; steam locomotive

3

to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)

2

to make narrower; to shut (an umbrella); to shrug (one's shoulders); to purse (one's lips)

1

breath; breathing; tone; mood

4

whistle (sound made with the lips)

2

gust (of wind); blast; influence; impact; instigation; agitation

1

vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude

1

noisily (crowd of people talking); clamorously; in a hubbub; jabberingly; chatteringly; buzzingly

2

with a start; with a jump

1

to rock; to shake; to swing

4

I got it; I see; I now know; So that's the reason

2

cake or snack served with tea

1

to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair

1

what's what; heads or tails

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eating house; restaurant that serves simple food

16

high (e.g. ball in baseball); highish; on the expensive side; comparatively expensive; wait tile which produces a winning hand with a higher score

1

thuddingly; plumping down (like a heavy weight)

4

round table

1

to sit on a seat

1

high salary earner; high income earner; well-paid employee; highly-paid; in the top salary bracket

1

fiery chariot (which carries the souls of sinners into hell); desperate financial situation; dire straits

1

yellow and white; gold and silver; bribery; corruption

2

gunpowder; powder

1

article; goods; fine thing; fellow; (arch.) prostitute; (arch.) price

2

base metal

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metal

3

to speak (of something); to be effective; to be powerful; to mean everything

1

spoon

6

to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with; to toy with (one's emotions, etc.); to trifle with; to do with something as one pleases; to appreciate

3

to have a long life; to live a long time

1

in fact; as a matter of fact; actually; in reality; to tell the truth

3

perpetual youth and longevity

1

to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for

9

to make a mistake; to be incorrect; to be mistaken

4

to lose one's life

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record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document

1

alchemy; way of making money; moneymaker; money-spinner

2

rough; crude; sloppy; miscellaneous

1

way of talking; speaking style

3

actually; really; truly; in practice; practically

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