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broke; poor; short; skint; having no money

1

to miss a meal; to lose the means to make one's livelihood

1

scoundrel; rascal; villain

1

monster

5

eyebrow

1

tip of one's nose

1

to bend backwards; to bend oneself back; to be taken aback

1

to plan; to plot; to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business); (arch.) to stand on tip-toes

1

luckily; happily

1

smooth (i.e. without problems)

1

shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon); trace

4

day after tomorrow; wrong (e.g. direction)

3

faculty of agriculture; school of agriculture; department of agriculture

6

taking up a new post

1

unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous

3

research institution

1

without; unless; have to do

1

agriculture; farming

3

many; a multiplicity of

1

to work together; to strive together; (lit.) to form a tag team

1

other than; excluding; without

1

to entwine; to twine around; to coordinate (with); to arrest

1

associate professor

3

speaker; lecturer; lecturer (at a university or college); instructor; part-time teacher; tutor (at a cram school)

4

scholar; student

1

researcher

1

the world in general; society; convention

2

value; worth; merit

1

prejudice; bias; distorted view

3

therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence

2

to be dyed; to be tainted; to be infected; to be stained

1

to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate

1

breaking up (a meeting, gathering, etc.); dispersal (e.g. of a crowd); dissolution (of a company, organization, etc.); winding-up; dissolution (of the Diet, Parliament, etc.)

2

(in) secrecy; behind closed doors

2

to achieve results; to be successful (in a venture, etc.)

1

election

1

change; alternation; rotation; replacement; substitution; shift

1

indefinite; hazy; vague; unsettled; undecided

2

to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from

3

not the time for; not the place for; far from; far more than; nowhere near just; well beyond

1

trying to think of a way (to do); devising means (to do); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing

1

anyway; anyhow; at any rate; in any case

2

to lower one's voice; to speak more softly

1

to make plans

3

notebook; memo pad; certificate; identification card

4

chewing gum; gum; rubber

2

sawdust

1

incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person

1

in truth; in actuality; at heart; the truth; the real story

2

lonely (e.g. person, feeling); lonesome; desolate; deserted; sad; lacking

1