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pathological; morbid; unhealthy; diseased; unwholesome; abnormal

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like everyone else; like most people; like an ordinary person; as much as anyone else

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associate professor

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pregnancy; conception; gestation

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Berlin (Germany)

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medical school

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studying abroad; studying at a different school, etc. (usu. for a specific purpose)

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acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition; cognition

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crying (of an infant) at night; baby colic

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child-rearing expenses; child-support payments (following divorce)

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job; work; duties; trade; skill

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profit; earnings

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to grow old; to age

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timid; faint of heart

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family register; census

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boorish; unsophisticated; unrefined; uncouth; tasteless; insensitive

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blood relationship; consanguinity; blood relative

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to be damaged; to receive damage

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covered with; stained; smeared

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old man; old geezer

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Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times

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retrogression; reversal; relapse; doubling back; backtracking

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plan; strategy

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variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; 300 tsubo (991.74 meters square, 0.24506 acres); six ken (10.91 m)

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one's family and followers; one's whole clan

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dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.)

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excitement; exasperation; indignation; rage; fury

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vindictive; tenacious; persistent; spiteful; vengeful

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by any means, fair or foul

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to tower above the rest; to be by far the best; to be prominent; to be outstanding; to be a cut above

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brain cell

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waiting impatiently for

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endurance; perseverance; patience

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master; expert; expert board game player (chess, go, shogi, etc.)

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necessity

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to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up

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innermost depths of one's heart

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tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability

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to raise; to rear; to train; to teach; to promote the growth of; to nurture

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masterwork; masterpiece; crowning work; one's magnum opus; work of the highest quality

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to use to the full (one's voice, energy, etc.); to muster all of (one's strength, courage, etc.); to summon all of; to exert fully; to strain (one's voice)

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ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly

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curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange

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to come to a dead end; to come to a standstill; to reach a deadlock; to reach an impasse; to reach a stalemate

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for convenience; as a matter of convenience

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seed stock; seed grain; foundation seed; pure breed; original strain; ancestor

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origin

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final form

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even so; however; still; whereupon; even though; nevertheless

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nutrition; nourishment

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