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3

collaboration; joint work

1

leading a meeting; presiding over a meeting; officiating at a ceremony; chairman; presenter; host

13

relation; connection; affinity

3

favoritism; favouritism; partiality; prejudice; bias

2

1,000,000; one million; million; many

3

field; plain; prairie; moor

7

praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis)

6

iron pot; kettle

3

nature; Mother Nature

4

maximum; local maximum

1

eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality

11

to peel; to skin; to pare; to bare (teeth, fangs); to open wide (eyes)

2

folk song; folk music

4

new ground (science, art, etc.); new front; new scope; frontier

2

avant-garde

2

(sense of) story; (sense of) narrative; storytelling (within a work); plot; storyline

2

lecture; sermon; preaching; scolding; preaching; moralizing

2

to use; to make use of; to utilize; to utilise

2

competition

1

melody; tune

8

destructive; catastrophic; disastrous; ruinous; devastating

2

mythical; mythological

1

motif

2

all things in nature; the whole creation

3

behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; (lit.) 2nd year of junior high sickness

9

mood; atmosphere; mood

6

nihility; nothingness

18

crying hard; crying one's eyes out; loud crying; wailing; profuse weeping

1

merely for form's sake

4

to fight against; to oppose; to face

10

thorny path

1

that road (path, street, way, etc.); that line (of business); that profession; love affairs; romance

6

to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful

8

breakup (of a ceremony, wedding, party, meeting, etc.); closure

5

moving forward (e.g. of a vehicle); onward movement; progress (of work, activities, etc.); advance; progression (of a disease, global warming, etc.); progression (e.g. chord progression)

10

special; TV special

7

love; love (in tennis, badminton, etc.)

4

this way (of doing); this method; this sort (of thing); this type

11

beginning; opening; start; outset

11

theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan

14

patching (clothing); darning; cobbling together (other people's writings, thoughts, etc.); gathering

1

protagonist; main character; hero; head (of a household); proprietor (of a store)

12

inside; interior; (within) one's mind; one's soul; one's heart

7

musical composition; melody writing; song writing

2

smoothly; easily; readily

6

even if I say so myself; for me (to do such a thing)

19

time for ...; time to ...; good time to ...; opportunity to ...; season

6

difference between night and day; world of difference; (being) poles apart; (lit.) difference between heaven and earth

1

one house

9