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to hide oneself

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opera glasses

1

tweed

1

jacket; book jacket; dust cover; CD jacket; record jacket

2

classroom; lecture room; department (in a university); class; lessons; school (for a particular discipline)

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unchanged (from long ago); as it was in the past; same old; traditional

3

to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to decline (e.g. of morals); to be lost; to go into decline (of a town, business, etc.)

3

the good old days; halcyon days

1

distinguished family; famous family; noble family; prestigious organization (company, school, etc.)

1

public school

1

that sort of; like that

1

to quieten down; to fall silent; to cease activities; to become inactive; to lie low

1

to run around

3

gentleman

1

dignity; majesty; solemnity; gravity

5

sweet-smelling; scentful; fragrant

1

handsome; shapely; clean-cut (features); decent; proper; correct

1

neighborhood council; neighbourhood council; residents' association; student council

2

election

2

to run for election

1

prefect; praepostor

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silk thread; silk yarn

1

commuting to school; school commute

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cruel; hard-hearted; harsh; unkind

2

nuclear weapon

1

dictatorship; despotism; autocracy; running (a company, etc.) despotically

1

uninterested (in); having no interest (in)

1

book; booklet; story book; pamphlet; notebook

1

really; very; extremely; (not) anything; (not) at all; (not) a bit

1

world map

1

classification by colour; sorting by color; color-coding; classification; sorting; grouping

1

cold color; cold colour

1

warm colour; warm color

2

bright red; deep red; flushed (of face); downright (e.g. lie); complete; utter

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best in the world

1

to lean (to one side); to incline; to be unbalanced (e.g. diet); to be unduly weighted towards; to be partial; to be biased

3

excessive meddling (esp. by parents); excessive interference

1

year on year; on the previous year

1

truth or falsehood; genuineness; authenticity; veracity

1

to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate

2

blue

2

at every opportunity; for each and every thing that crops up; with every little thing; whenever possible; whenever the chance arises; at every turn

1

Halloween

1

relation of cause and effect; causal relationship; causal link; causality

3

liver; innards; courage; spirit; crux; essential point

3

population distribution

1

farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation

6

something one finds questionable; something one finds fault with

3

falling down one after another (like dominoes); toppling shogi pieces (lined up in a row)

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one copy (of a document); one letter; one-way traffic; pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9)

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