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myopia; shortsightedness; nearsightedness

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New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

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lucky-dip bag; grab bag; mystery package (with a variety of articles possibly worth more than the purchase price)

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personality; individuality; TV personality; celebrity

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autobiography

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strenuous efforts; exerting oneself; stirring oneself up; splurge; spending extravagantly (on); treating oneself (to)

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unfortunately; sorry, but ...

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jingling; (sound of) many people clapping together; healthy; robust; concluding successfully; (arch.) boiling (of water)

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to turn one's back on; to be uninterested in

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rectangle; oblong

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Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral

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beam; joist

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scalp

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to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to

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roof leak

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to trickle down

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gaudy; loud; garish; intense; harsh; extreme

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cube sugar; sugar cube

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short and stout; small but wide around

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tousled; shaggy (hair); scraggly (beard); dishevelled; disheveled; unkempt

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to be wavy; to be curled; to be frizzled

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in tufts; tufty; bushy; thick; luxuriant

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testicles; balls; nuts

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sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string

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trench coat

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to be anxious (about); to be concerned (about); to think out (e.g. a plan); to work out; to investigate

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not writing or contacting for a while; neglecting (failing) to write (call, visit, etc.); long silence

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to sum up; to summarize; to summarise

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long period (of time)

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international phone call

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contacting; getting in touch; communication; call; message

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(with) only the clothes one happens to wear; (with) only the clothes on one's back; (still) wearing the same clothes as before (e.g. before falling asleep)

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this place; here

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to puzzle over; to think deeply about; to rack one's brains over (wrack)

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buttocks; behind; undersurface; bottom; last place; end

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to see; to look; to watch; to try to ...

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drip; fall drop-by-drop; suddenly (of drops of water)

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Corsica (France)

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black dog

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to interrupt (with frivolous remarks, silly jokes, etc.); to butt in; to make teasing remarks

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growing late; latening

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trial by hot water; putting a person's hand in boiling water to determine their guilt or innocence (with the belief that the innocent would not be scalded)

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to stretch (one's body)

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to buy in quantity; to buy a lot (of); to stock up (on); to lay in

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top of the foot; instep; dorsum of the foot; dorsum pedis

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decoration; arrangement

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sunset; sundown; end; close; year-end; end of the year

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to delay; to put off; to procrastinate

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delivery (of a package, goods, etc.)

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sequel; later development

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