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to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)

23

eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice

35

to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread

1

black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty

8

clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.

7

group; crowd; flock; herd; bevy; school

1

she; her; girlfriend

138

to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

20

to be able (to); to be possible (to)

24

18; eighteen

4

mostly; nearly; practically; well-nigh; almost invariably; all but

32

work; job; labor; work

32

nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible

206

(swimming) pool; pool (billiards); pool (together)

27

observer; watchman; lifeguard

1

and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not

12

study (e.g. material); learning; for studying

1

dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation

1

sales; selling; salesman

1

part-time job; side job; part-time worker; albite

30

five; 5

10

year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

29

cable television

1

channel

1

to increase; to multiply

2

olden days; former

8

rebroadcasting; rerun

1

to prosper; to flourish; to thrive; to become popular; to become widespread

1

origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material

7

royalties

1

to pay

4

or

1

essays; miscellaneous writings; literary jottings

1

lecture; address; speech

1

request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance

1

seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...

53

friend; acquaintance

2

to beg; to ask; to request; to invite

1

one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume

3

book; volume; this; present; main; head

9

(one's) life

4

cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible

11

title

2

other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but

18

to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)

15

all-night vigil over a body; wake

2

honorific/polite/humble prefix

32

funeral

1

lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate

11

to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something

3