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university lecturer; college lecturer

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Boston

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to return; to come back

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personal information

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getting (something); obtaining; scoring (goal, point, etc.)

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Tanaka

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's house; 's home

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

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facing; opposite; across the street; other side

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wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam

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acquaintance

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before oneself; in front of one; a bit before reaching (a location); this side (of a location); one's standpoint; one's appearance; skill

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door (Western-style, car, etc.)

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to smash down; to beat in

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shoplifting; shoplifter

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potato chips; potato crisps

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to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment

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game

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lucky you

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how; in what way; by what means

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apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize

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to relax; to make oneself comfortable

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to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip out

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what day; how many days

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leader of a charge; first to arrive

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beautiful woman; (a) beauty

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frightening; scary; (arch.) extreme; (arch.) exaggerated; (arch.) huge

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about; concerning; related to; -ish

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to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with

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embarrassing; embarrassed; ashamed; disgraceful; shameful

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to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire

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(United States of) America; United States; US; America (land mass); the Americas

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crisp (not moist or juicy); crunchy; crunching sound (of walking on snow, frost, sand, etc.); doing skillfully and efficiently; doing quickly; (arch.) sound of pouring liquid

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to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize

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treachery; betrayal; perfidy

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lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many

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direct; immediate; personal; firsthand

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alternately; by turns

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sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly

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(lit.) blood flows; to have the blood of ... running in one's veins (artist, warrior, etc.); to be born with particular skills, characteristics, etc.; to have something "in one's blood"

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sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course

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first-class; top grade; characteristic; peculiar; school (e.g. of a performance art); one flag

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always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively

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to take seriously; to take someone at their word; to believe (to be true)

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writing (an essay, prose, etc.); composition; formal writing with little real meaning

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as a matter of fact; to tell the truth

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one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)

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living in obscurity; lying low; remaining unnoticed

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granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman

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photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie

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