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changing assignments

2

to work one's way up

1

gross weight

1

inscrutable; incomprehensible

1

grant; allowance; endowment; bestowal; assignment; conferment

7

how much; how many; however

1

to weave

2

to tailor; to make (clothing); to train; to bring up; to make it seem like; to pass off

1

steel

1

showy; ostentatious

1

appearance; outward show

1

stupid; meaningless; worthless; hopeless (person, situation); beyond help; beyond saving

1

defeating an argument; winning an argument; refutation; confutation

1

often; frequently; lightly (of a movement); easily; simply

1

to talk (someone) down; to argue down; to silence; to put (someone) in their place; to corner in an argument; to get the better of

1

next (spoken) word

1

voluntary retirement

1

to induce (someone to do something); to tempt; to act toward (someone in a certain way); to handle (men); to send; to forward to

1

haircutting; hair cutter; prostitute cutting a customer's hair to show him her genuine feelings; long-horned beetle; kamikiri; mythical creature said to secretly cut head hair

4

all that one has; all that there is; the whole

2

to behave modestly

1

repeatedly; over and over again; fully (e.g. understand); very much; very well

1

to carry on one's shoulder; to shoulder; to bear; to bear (a burden, responsibility, etc.); to take upon oneself

4

to worry about; to be anxious about; to be concerned about; to lament; to grieve; to mourn

1

mean bastard; sneak; heel; despicable person

1

maid; helper; help; assistance

5

to become stronger; to grow in intensity; to grow violent; to invite contributions, etc.; to solicit help, participation, etc.; to recruit (e.g. soldiers)

2

women and children

1

very

1

all you have to do is; just; that's all

1

eyewitness report; eyewitness information

1

offender; criminal; culprit

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profile

1

saying goodbye (to); bidding farewell (to); breaking off (with); farewell; goodbye; adieu

1

outsider; someone outside of a group

4

people; citizens; subjects; folk

1

to cut off; to lop off; to prune

4

son (of others); boy; young master; young man innocent of the ways of the world; man of pampered upbringing; greenhorn (from a well-off family)

1

(another's) daughter; young lady

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place surrounded by walls; (within) prison

1

counter for buildings (esp. houses); suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.

3

compensation; reparation

5

horse riding; horseback riding; mounting a horse; mount; riding horse; saddle horse

1

lucky you

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to have the memory of having done something oneself

1

just the other day; quite recently

1

casualties; killed and wounded; human damage

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stickily; glutinously; persistently; insistently; tenaciously

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middle-aged man

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disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment

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