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breakfast

1

godsend; lifesaver; timely offer; windfall

1

ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay

3

reeking of blood; stinking of blood; bloody (battle, crime, etc.)

6

to make (someone) to meet; to let (someone) meet; to expose to; to subject to

1

slovenly (appearance, work, etc.); sloppy; untidy; weak; feeble; weak-willed

1

to tan (i.e. suntan); to burn

5

clothing; dressing; binding (of a book)

9

murder case

1

right now

1

to hate each other; to hate mutually

1

dissection; autopsy; postmortem examination; analysis; dissection (e.g. of a problem); putting in order

2

to classify; to sort out; to sift through

1

to remove; to clear away; to except from; to make an exception of; to lay aside; to set aside

1

criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach

1

spiritual aspect; mental aspect; emotional aspect

1

nihility; nothingness

4

to play dumb; to feign innocence

1

number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.

6

if; in case; supposing

2

presence; presents

1

schizophrenia

1

pasturing (e.g. cattle); letting (an animal) run loose; letting (someone) do as they please; leaving (something) to take its own course; letting (an issue) go unchecked

5

way; method; means

1

Zen dialogue; Zen questions and answers

2

black box; flight recorder; black box (system or device with hidden internal workings)

1

to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender one's body

1

medium-size draft beer

1

to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress

2

to throw violently against; to slam against; to strike; to thrust at someone (e.g. a letter)

70

minimum

1

prime; conspicuous

4

point of likeness (between); resemblance; similarity

1

manner of using one's hands

1

once-in-a-lifetime encounter; uniquely precious experience; (lit.) one lifetime, one meeting

2

publication (of a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); issue; issue (of banknotes, bonds, passport, etc.); raising (an event)

1

secondhand bookshop; secondhand bookstore; secondhand bookseller

1

psychopath

1

professional wrestler

1

shortage of talented people; shortfall in human resources

1

to deduct; to take away

1

self-respect; self-confidence; guts; backbone; pride; drive

1

gushingly; copiously; profusely; in a steady stream

5

Hercule Poirot

3

one's last moments; (on) the point of death; (on) one's deathbed

1

dying message (message left by a murder victim just before death; in mystery novels, etc.)

1

to possess (someone; of an evil spirit, idea, etc.); to take hold of; to haunt

1

to pick at; to peck at

1

comatose state

1

curtain call

1