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noise (usu. unpleasant); interference (e.g. radio); static; gossip; irresponsible criticism

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immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to; giving oneself up entirely to

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suddenly; abruptly; unexpectedly

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difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)

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clearly (understand, see, hear, etc.); distinctly; perfectly; as if it were right in front of one

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(feeling of) identification; sense of unity

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handsome man; man's looks; good looks; manliness

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start; beginning

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some; few; a number of; somewhat; to a certain extent; a bit

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the defensive; passive attitude; passivity; the passive; passive voice; ukemi (the art of falling safely)

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man's man; man aggressively pursuing sex and riches; (lit.) carnivore

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goodness; good

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understanding person; supporter

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seeing two people (i.e. romantically) at the same time; two-timing; bifurcation; fork; fence-sitting; playing it both ways

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cancelling (a debt); forgiving (a debt); being even; forgetting (what was said or done); pretending (something never happened)

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child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing ...)

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main thread (of a story)

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to fall ill; to suffer from (e.g. a disease); to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ); to be depressed; to feel down

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that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you

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impressiveness; impact; force; intensity; presence; appeal

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one-person show; one-woman show; one-man show; performing solo; monodrama

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elimination (of a person, group, etc.); killing off; denial (of an opinion, fact, etc.); ignoring; erasure (of writing); rubbing out

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madness; insanity

1

shivering (with cold); trembling (with fear); shuddering

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to raise; to bring up; to rear; to cultivate; to foster; to nurture

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one-by-one; separately; in detail

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general public; the masses

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to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order

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pre-established harmony (Leibniz theory); harmonie préétablie; (events) proceeding in a predictable fashion; turning out the way everyone expected; convention

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atonement; the Atonement (of Jesus Christ)

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curse; spell; malediction

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to talk; to speak

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to pick a fight

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to get into a fight; to take up the gauntlet; to accept a challenge

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mercy; compassion; clemency; rufous hawk-cuckoo; northern hawk-cuckoo

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unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected

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special someone; special person; precious one; significant other

2

monastery; convent; cloister; abbey

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confinement; imprisonment; incarceration

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real; realistic; serious; non-joking; realtime blog; real world (cf. online games or social networking services)

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original form; base form

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eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality

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what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind

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to wield; to brandish; to display (one's knowledge); to show off; to abuse (one's power); to manipulate someone

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equipment; device; installation; stage setting

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to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)

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to sit up

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for one thing ...

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to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause

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prey; catch; kill; spoils; trophy; loot

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