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after dinner

1

cooling oneself outdoors on a summer evening; enjoying the evening cool

1

instinctive; instinctual

2

(place) right in the center; dead center; dead centre; exact middle; heart

2

like this; this sort; this way

11

striding; swaggering; strutting; lording it over others; throwing one's weight around; acting as if one owns the place

4

predation; eating prey; preying upon

1

frequent customer; good customer; client

1

microwave

2

calligraphy (esp. Asian calligraphy based on Chinese characters)

1

major incident; major happening; big scandal

4

hospitalization; hospitalisation

3

visit (to someone affected by illness or misfortune); call; letter of inquiry; letter of sympathy; dealing (a hit); striking (a blow)

1

to press a question; to cross-examine

1

to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)

4

noisy; loud; boisterous; turbulent; unsettled; restless

1

payment

1

thirst for blood; bloodlust; determination to kill

6

money collection

1

paying loan installments whenever one happens to have money (instalments)

1

this store

2

evening; night; nighttime

1

any one; any; whichever

1

lucky; nice!; score!; bingo!

1

prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante

5

foreign language

2

poet

6

Ambrose Bierce

17

(one's) initials; first letter (of a name, sentence, etc.); initial; first

2

caller; visitor; company; guest

1

foreigner (esp. a Westerner); gaijin; (arch.) outsider

1

old person; elderly person; trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay; senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate); important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)

10

oblong; vertical writing style (e.g. on envelopes); portrait orientation

1

to hear; to catch (the sound of something); to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to get used to hearing

3

to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

3

Arabian Nights; One Thousand and One Nights

2

Ambrose

3

to declare; to assert; to say bluntly; to say straight out

7

siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement

21

source of information; intelligence source; message source

1

details (of an incident, event, etc.); whole story; course of events; facts; circumstances; particulars

1

idea; notion; sense (e.g. of duty); resignation (to one's fate); acceptance; observation and contemplation

1

mythical; mythological

2

wise person; virtuous person; sage; unrefined sake

1

Mary (mother of Jesus); the Virgin Mary; Mary (of Magdala); Mary Magdalene

3

stable; barn

1

library

42

abruptly (rising); slowly (rising)

1

gold lettering; gilt letters

1

at; in; at; when; by; with

3