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to continue to hold; to hold on to (for a long period); to maintain; to keep

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important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident

7

connection; relation

2

means; way; measure

3

indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged

6

frog

1

to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)

2

to ponder; to brood

7

hope; wish; aspiration

3

serious look (on one's face); straight face

3

(smile) broadly

2

molars; back teeth

2

to show; to display

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thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...

3

otherwise; or else; if not

2

same; similar; (just) like; equal

3

holiday; day off; sleep; rest; Good night

3

to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends

2

good night

2

to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard

6

to breathe while sleeping

1

to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)

1

conference room; council room

2

to happen to pass by

1

staff meeting

2

muffled voice

3

board chairman

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teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder

5

terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

1

loud voice

8

to say to each other; to exchange (jokes, comments, etc.); to quarrel; to dispute

1

snoring; snore

1

it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...

4

anyhow; in any case; at any rate; at best; at most

2

unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected

3

speaker

6

with a scraping sound; with a scratching sound; with a crunching sound (while eating)

1

noise (usu. unpleasant); interference (e.g. radio); static; gossip; irresponsible criticism

1

to talk; to chat; to chatter

3

broadcasting; broadcast; program; announcement

12

device; equipment; machinery; apparatus

1

unnatural; affected; studied; forced

1

clearing one's throat; cough

1

all; everyone; everybody

2

hello; good day; good afternoon

2

haltingly; stutteringly

1

being startled

7

vacantly; blankly; openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; with a whack; with a thump

2

to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate

2

last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier

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