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compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work

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start; commencement; beginning; initiation

2

solving a riddle; solving a mystery

2

to put back in a good mood; to cheer up

1

large-hearted; generous; liberal; placid; composed; cool

1

to set up (a house, store, etc.); to build; to have at the ready (e.g. a gun); to hold in preparation (e.g. a camera); to adopt a posture; to assume a stance; to put on an air

3

meeting; rendezvous; meeting for the first time; coming across; confluence

2

white vegetables or fish simmered without soy sauce

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to taste; to savor; to appreciate; to enjoy; to experience; to go through

2

to be outdone (by); to be in inferior (to); to compare unfavorably (with); to be behind

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pride; self-confidence; thinking highly of oneself; being proud of one's abilities or achievements

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to be doing; to be in the process of doing

2

biological

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appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy

2

any and every thing; altogether; lock, stock, and barrel; the whole shooting match; the whole kit and caboodle; without reserve

1

in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se

1

name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext

2

type; style; mold; mould; kata (set sequence of positions and movements in martial arts); style (in kabuki, noh, etc.); convention

1

boastful; conceited; bragging; impudent

3

to gain experience; to get accustomed (with something)

2

extreme (measure, idea, etc.); radical; violent (language); strenuous (exercise, work, etc.); excessive; (physically) demanding

1

transfer student; student changing schools

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experiences

3

with profound (often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting

3

reciting (to oneself); repeating (e.g. an order, to confirm one heard it correctly)

1

detour; circuitous route; diversion

1

to overdo; to do too much

1

amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute

2

remarks; comments; way of talking; speaking style; excuse; topic (of conversation)

2

to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way

1

each time; every time; whenever (something happens); on the occasion of

1

hard-to-do; difficult; tough; awkward; tricky

1

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

2

we; us; I; me

7

follow; following (on social media, esp. Twitter); follow-up; following up; backing-up; covering for; follow-up shot

1

I don't like it; it's troublesome; it's too much; it's awful

2

nine o'clock

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to take more time than expected; to take a long time; to be delayed

1

truth; real situation

2

so what?; what of it?; and?; why do you ask?

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independence; self-reliance; independence (e.g. of a nation); freedom; separation; isolation

1

having no idea; having no clue

1

to reach the point where ...; to come to ...; to come to be that ...; to start to ...; to begin to ...

1

to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other

1

confident; assured; self-assured; bullish

1

to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept

1

unexpected; unforeseen; strange

7

irregular; bad bounce (in tennis); bad hop (in baseball)

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or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean

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beyond expectations; beyond what one expected; not foreseen; exceeding assumptions

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