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rare

2

word game; wordplay; playing with words

1

library; book storage; stack room; archive (file)

1

to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)

1

to be distracted from feelings of depression, boredom, tension, etc.

1

transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity); communication; delivery; conveyance; transfer; relay

1

charge; duty; person in charge; official; clerk

8

every time; each round

1

to escape to a safe place; to make one's getaway; to effect one's escape; to make good one's escape

1

having served one's purpose; being finished (with); business settled

2

in a sense; in some way; to an extent

3

ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody

7

completely; thoroughly; decisively; unsparingly; beyond recognition; until there's no untouched (undamaged) part

1

to become blunt; to grow dull; to become less capable; to weaken; to falter

1

to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake

6

humorous; funny; amusing; enjoyable (e.g. life); pleasant; fun

1

to make out to be; to set someone up (as); to prepare (e.g. someone for a role); to make (e.g. "a man out of him"); to frame

1

liking for; taste for; fondness for; to the liking of; favored by; popular with

1

song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry

7

to fly in the air

2

wine glass

1

lover; mistress; kept woman

1

(another's) son; boy; young master; green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

9

shopping; purchased goods

3

attendance (on); chaperonage; attendant; escort; entourage

1

blood relative

1

iron pipe; steel pipe; metal pipe

1

thousand-fold

2

this

3

somehow; for some reason or other

1

descendant; progeny; offspring

2

north and south; north to south; South Korea and North Korea

1

(connecting) passageway; accessway; walk-through; skyway; sky bridge

2

place for relaxation and refreshment

1

self-introduction

3

flower bed

2

curb (stone); kerb

1

hot dog; corn dog

10

cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a building)

2

buying up of goods; cornering (market)

1

food

1

purchase; buying

2

anyway; by the way; incidentally; well; to change the subject

1

to deduct; to take away; to make allowances (for something); to bear (something) in mind; to ebb and flow

1

accounting; administration (of money)

1

ventriloquism; throwing one's voice

1

stroll in the air (e.g. leisurely helicopter, airplane ride)

1

illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault

1

automatic

1

with a vroom; with a sudden shaking

2