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lack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation

1

wise; sensible; well-advised; intelligent; sagacious; prudent

3

sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered

1

to negotiate (with someone about); to talk over (something with); to tackle someone (about); to throw on each other; to splash (water) on each other; to pour on each other

4

if one is unlucky; if one is careless; if things don't go well

1

(just) making sure; just to be sure; just in case; for caution's sake

1

expenses; disbursements

1

to jar; to grate; to make others uncomfortable

1

blackboard

1

to scratch; to claw

2

unpleasant; disagreeable; nasty; lewd; lascivious; obscene

3

batsu game; punishment given to the loser of a game or contest

4

to dash off; to write freely

1

note; memo; memorandum

9

one hour

3

drug addict; junkie

1

person who poses a high risk

1

abstruseness; abstruse word

1

in all ages; over the ages; forever and ever

1

bogging down; dragging on; turning into a quagmire; becoming mired in a mess

2

religious conversion

1

funeral; burial rites; attendance at a funeral

2

drafting; requisition; impressment; commandeering; expropriation

1

anecdote

1

to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)

3

to arrive (at one's destination); to reach; to come to a head; to reach a conclusion; to culminate (in)

6

however; having said that; but

4

to crack (person's voice); to squeak

1

presence; dignity

1

ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition

8

flight from one's country; seeking asylum; defection; emigration (for political reasons); (going into) exile; becoming a (political) refugee

1

to collect one's thoughts; to gather one's thoughts; to put one's ideas in order

3

clandestine meeting

1

personal statement; verbal or informal, unsubstantiated assertion

1

prudence; discretion; thought

1

answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising

3

disguise; masquerade

5

absolute secrecy

1

to acquire knowledge

1

nothing but; none other than

2

to incur someone's enmity

1

(one's) identity; background; upbringing; (one's) character

1

your will; your pleasure; your wish; certainly; as you say; you are quite right

1

reason; logic; sense; natural way of things

4

relic; remains; memento

1

to examine; to check; to inspect

1

any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever

1

classmate

2

to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over

1

performer; entertainer; celebrity

1