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fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking

2

to meet; to greet

1

Hogue

1

scale; scope; plan; structure

5

building

5

first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all

3

public relations; client liaison; client relations

4

bureau; department; office (e.g. post, telephone); broadcasting station (e.g. television, radio); affair; situation

4

book; volume; this; present; main; head

1

hut; house; boarding house; school dormitory; (arch.) one day's march (approx. 12.2 km)

1

administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like

1

to digest; to break down; to break to pieces; to be able to use; to be good at; to finish; to complete

1

chapel; place of worship (esp. Christian); place of worship (esp. Buddhist and Shinto)

1

to furnish with; to equip with; to prepare for; to make preparations for; to possess (all that is needed); to be endowed with

7

opposition; rebellion; rebounding; recoiling; rally (e.g. in stock prices); recovery

2

very; extremely; exceedingly; top; highest; best

3

a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course

1

worldly wisdom; gumption; stingy person

1

to excel at; to be proficient at; to grow old; to ripen; to rise high (e.g. the sun)

1

top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile

2

antipathy; antagonism; animosity; revulsion; ill feeling

1

last night

1

bureau director; office chief

1

to soothe; to calm; to pacify

1

thanks (for coming, helping, etc.); glad you could make it; tiredness; fatigue

1

seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to

5

something said for politeness' sake; diplomatic language; honeyed words; lip service; empty compliment

1

easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all

1

bottom of one's heart; depths of one's mind; innermost thoughts; from the bottom of one's heart; wholeheartedly; truly

2

physical condition; state of health

1

to be anxious or concerned about; to ponder (anxiously); to fear; to investigate; to consider; to plan

2

consideration; concern; fear; worry; solicitude

1

to be greatly obliged; to be very sorry

1

substantial; real (as opposed to nominal)

5

person of paramount authority; supreme wielder of power

1

grandchild

1

personal; individual; private

1

reverence

1

to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)

3

sense of impending crisis; sense of danger

1

to fan (oneself, flames, etc.); to flap (in the wind); to instigate; to stir up; to drive up prices (by buying a large amount of something); to take a photo from a low angle; to tailgate

1

together; in company

1

suicide

1

to induce (somebody to do something); to tempt; to act toward (somebody in a certain way); to handle (men); to send; to forward to

1

to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge

7

repentance; confession; penitence

1

to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by

2

to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square

1

to scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt; to look down on; to disdain

1

and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless

6