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reply (e.g. email, fax, letter); answer

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to compare

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good-for-nothing; spineless; gutless; spiritless; feckless; pluckless

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determination; resolution

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trembling with excitement

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beginning; start; clue; lead; thread end

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the best one can do; one's best effort; with all one's might; to the best of one's ability

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straight; straightforward; direct; neat (e.g. spirits); black (e.g. tea, coffee); entering university directly from high school; fast ball

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convenient; useful; finding useful; coming in handy; (priceless) treasure

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completion; conclusion; perfect (tense, form, aspect)

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wrong; groundless; different; separate; unexpected; surprising

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omitting (reluctantly); leaving out; dropping; giving up (reluctantly); parting with; sharing

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word processing software

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leisurely; slow; deliberate; easygoing

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plan; plot; idea; conception; vision; scheme

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to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)

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to surge; to well up; to gush out

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as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")

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to be seized with fear; to be intimidated; to lose one's nerve; to be frightened; to get cold feet; to chicken out

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to make someone realize (e.g. their mistake); to bring (something) home to someone; to teach someone a lesson

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short pause; short interval

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hazy; misty; foggy; hazy feeling; uncertain feeling; feeling gloomy

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virtual

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all pain, no gain; doing no good and a lot of harm; having no redeeming features; being a complete disadvantage; (lit.) a hundred harms and not a single gain

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injustice; impropriety; unreasonableness; undeserved; unfair; invalid

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to oppress; to persecute; to tyrannize

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speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)

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to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard

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conceit; hubris; vanity; presumption

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extreme; excessive; terrible; intense; severe; serious

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utilitarianism

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incarnation (of Buddha or bodhisattva); avatar; embodiment (as in "embodiment of evil"); incarnation; personification

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competitive entrance examinations for prestigious kindergartens and elementary schools

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waste of time

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cliche; platitude; formula; set phrase

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to forge; to temper; to drill; to train; to discipline

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to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol

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robot; (mere) puppet; pawn; figurehead

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efficient

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playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)

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that much; as much; to that extent; only that; that alone; no more than that

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sentence-ending particle expressing doubt

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to feel irritated; to feel offended; to feel angry; to feel sick; to feel nauseous

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and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not

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weak; delicate; sickly

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bean sprouts

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oasis; OASYS (Fujitsu WP system)

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atrocious crime; heinous crime

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expert; knowledgeable person; authority (on a subject)

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to cite as an example; to refer to; to quote

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