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property; assets; fortune

2

public affair; government matter; duke; prince; Sir; Lord

3

it serves you (him) right; it's what you (he) deserves

1

downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction

8

serves you right!; see what happens!

1

serious criminal; heinous criminal

1

champion of justice; knight in shining armor; crime avenger; hero; super hero

7

to be of benefit; to be beneficial; to be useful; to do one good; to be good for one

6

(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

6

public employee; government employee; public-sector worker; public servant; civil servant

2

night duty; night shift; night work

2

going to work; leaving for work; attendance (at work); being at work; presence (in the office); reporting for work

1

disturbance; kerfuffle

1

to go down in history; to be recorded in the history books

3

reduction by half; halving

8

to overcome (opposition); to push past; to force one's way; to press and cut

4

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

2

in; at; for

9

encouragement; cheering on

2

modus operandi; criminal technique; trick

9

barefaced (e.g. lie); transparent; with feigned ignorance; pretending not to know; pure white; very clear

1

life or death struggle; mortal combat; struggle to the death

1

(arriving at the) final stop (of a bus, train, etc.); (reaching the) end of the line

1

to fight each other; to clash

1

to escape being burned (esp. of a building or the items in it); to survive a fire

6

to pursue

5

liar; fibber; lying

1

about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite

4

three meals (a day)

2

big job; great task

7

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

3

illustration appearing in the first pages of a publication; frontispiece

1

sexy

1

turban-like hat worn by officials in the Ryūkyū Kingdom

3

full stop; period; end

2

I, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one

4

improvement (to a piece of writing or painting); revision; correction; touching up

3

association; socializing; socialising; fellowship

3

scene; sight; scenario; setting

6

passage; paragraph

2

observance (of laws, rules, etc.); adherence; obeying; following; abiding by; compliance

3

falsehood; untruth; lie; fallacy

2

soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy

2

thick fried tofu

1

cold tofu (served with condiments)

1

stomach acid; gastric acid

3

soy milk

1

boiled egg

1

moderation; self-restraint; temperance

1

boneless pork rib; boned pork rib

1