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unpleasant; disagreeable; nasty; lewd; lascivious; obscene

3

to scan; to look over

8

easy victory; walkover; easy peasy; child's play; cakewalk

3

preparation for a lesson

4

to take the time (to do); to set aside time (for)

4

second year of high school; second-year high-school student

1

self-study; teaching oneself; studying by oneself (at school) while the teacher is absent

1

to make a serious effort

6

surely; certainly; no doubt; indeed

8

mental preparedness; being braced for; being steeled for

5

relief; aid; help; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace

8

labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble

9

to kick down; to defeat

2

economical; bargain; good value; good-value

2

to shrug one's shoulders

4

otherwise; or else; if not

5

annual (plant); first-year student

11

superficial; half-hearted; shallow

4

breaking off a relationship; permanent breach of friendship; rupture

3

just like

10

tuna (edible fish, Thunnus spp.); tunny; Pacific bluefin tuna (edible fish, Thunnus orientalis); dead lay; starfish

8

attention seeker; look-at-me

1

to bend down; to bow down; to prostrate oneself; to hide oneself

2

top; summit; vertex

1

good-looking guy; handsome man; hunk; Adonis; cool guy

3

puppet; marionette

2

anguish

3

bitter tears; (lit.) tears of blood

1

Armageddon

1

high-risk

4

nearest station

1

seeing off and meeting on return

3

to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)

2

paving (a road); surfacing (with asphalt, concrete, etc.); pavement

1

rattling; clattering; trembling; shivering; whining; grumbling

2

to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach

34

to adjoin each other; to sit side by side

1

to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence

3

frilly; fluttery

3

romantic

4

extract; excerpt; selection

4

beautiful man and woman; handsome couple

1

(divine) providence; dispensation

3

ugly woman

1

child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)

670

boyfriend; he; him

7

generosity; magnanimity; tolerance; length and capacity; measures

2

advice

19

correction; looking over; touching up

2

one's best interests; one's own good

3