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unpredictability; element of surprise

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main thread (of a story)

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good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial

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material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick

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great numbers (of people); numerical superiority; masses; people; folk; clique

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gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step

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the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it

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to flirt with; to dally

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official; formal; formula (e.g. mathematical); official (social media) account (of a company, organization, etc.)

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bluff

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writer

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demo version (of software); trial version

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Erasmus

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comedy

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the opposite direction; the other way

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running as fast as one can

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slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)

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someone who withdraws from society (e.g. hides in their room); hikikomori

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to stay indoors; to be confined indoors

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the same; the said; likewise

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character; personality; (fictional) character; letter; character

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short (e.g. story, film)

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that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there

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lath; lass

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spoiler; revealing important plot points of a story; spoiling a story

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position

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to focus (on)

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dead end; tragic ending (e.g. of film)

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completely beating somebody up; being completely knocked down; thoroughly bashing somebody

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second half; latter half

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serious

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all one's power (strength, energy, efforts); one's utmost

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same row; same line; same file; same rank; same level; same category

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beautification; glorification

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anything and everything; all sorts of things; by all means

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heroine

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rustic simplicity; homeliness; unsophisticated; naive; honest; simple

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overly serious; serious to a fault; humorless

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love affair; love relationship

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to hang; to droop; to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status); to confer; to drip; to ooze; to leave behind (at death)

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self-introduction (of a character in noh theatre)

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innate cheerfulness; innately cheerful person; happy-go-lucky person; natural optimist

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Emmy

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theatrical elocution

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withdrawal; retraction; revocation; repeal

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personal history; background; log; record; hysteresis

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

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romanticism

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orthodox school

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villain; baddie; the villain's part

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