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highly unpredictable; touch and go

1

to stay overnight; to stop (e.g. at a hotel)

3

to be in one's debt

3

inquiry; enquiry; investigation; (police) interview; questioning (e.g. witness, suspect); hearing

1

internal strife; infighting; internal conflict

1

shift the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); pass the buck

3

calculating

1

it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...

6

person given as a reference; witness; potential suspect; person of interest; witness

1

grizzled; (hair) streaked with grey (gray)

1

not factored in; not included in calculations; unaccounted for; unplanned for

1

to become better; to improve

8

assumption; supposition; hypothesis

14

crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)

4

to recall; to remember

3

slight (degree); light

2

to explain adequately; to be accountable

1

way out; means to escape; escape route

5

starring in one's own play, movie, etc.; directing one's own play, etc.

7

unqualified; without qualifications

2

explosive blast (in construction, mining, etc.); blasting

2

one end; an end; part; fragment

4

muzzling (a person); preventing (a person) from revealing something; silencing (a person); murdering (a person) to prevent them from revealing something

6

hold; catch; connection; relationship; unease; discomfort

2

reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre

2

sum total; total amount

2

to begin to drink

5

thank you for your hard work; good work; see you; goodbye; goodnight

4

seasonal change of clothing; changing one's dress for the season; renovation; facelift; redesign

1

deeply (stab, thrust, etc.); hard

1

stab; thrust; lunge

3

deficiency disease (e.g. protein, vitamin, etc.)

1

to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush

3

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

1

taboo word

1

lack of words; being tongue-tied; suppressing what you want to say

3

black kite (Milvus migrans); construction worker; scaffold erector; fire hook; reddish brown; Inverness cape; filcher

2

death penalty; capital punishment

2

embodiment; manifestation; materialization; materialisation; expression; indication

2

big leakage; uncontained leak

1

a glow; heat; burning sensation; hot flash

1

complete desperation

1

stomach medicine

13

to hurt; to injure; to harm; to damage; to worry; to bother

4

to feign illness

1

foreign travel

3

affidavit; deposition; testimony

2

desperation; despair; self-abandonment

2

to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to look at (something) from another perspective; to put it the other way round; to visit the same prostitute or geisha for a second time

1

learning good manners through apprenticeship (to an upper-class family)

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