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half and half; fifty-fifty

1

at any rate; anyhow

1

abrupt; sudden

7

relation; connection; relevance

3

to be lacking in options; to be too few

1

difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

1

supernatural (e.g. psychic phenomena and such); paranormal

1

well; now; then

2

to feel irritated; to feel offended; to feel angry; to feel sick; to feel nauseous

1

stranger; outsider

1

to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise

1

mediation; good offices; influential person; person of influence; (arch.) eloquence; (arch.) eloquent person

2

business trip; official trip

2

to attack; to assail; to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.); to make a sudden visit

12

insecurity; carelessness

1

to explain; to advocate; to preach; to persuade

1

new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)

2

movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling

5

tasks; things to do; errand; business (to take care of); affairs; engagement

8

drink; drinking; spigot; tap (in a cask, etc.); stock market bucketing; bookmaking

1

occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom

5

to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die

15

collision; crash; running into; conflict; quarrel; clashing

7

to blow off; to be blown off

4

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

2

arrogant; haughty; insolent

1

behaving outrageously as though there were no one around; acting without consideration for others; arrogance; audacity; insolence

2

open; public; official; overt

2

to let leak; to let out (e.g. light); to let out (a secret); to leak (information); to give utterance to (e.g. one's dissatisfaction); to vent; to wet one's pants

9

person

24

to come out; to appear; to turn up; to emerge

3

until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it

3

running as fast as one can

1

sense of accomplishment

4

feeling of emptiness; sense of void

1

to crush (with the weight of misfortune)

6

court lady; lady-in-waiting (Heian period); separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady) (Heian period); room for a very low class prostitute; very low class prostitute

2

to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued

7

veil of darkness; curtain of night

2

(on a) closer look; closer scrutiny; second look

3

thick growth of plants; plantation; shrubbery; thicket

1

stone; jewel; precious stone; flint (in a lighter); stone (in go); stone (in the bladder, kidney etc.); calculus

1

to sit (down)

1

to smoke (e.g. pipe); to puff (cigarette)

3

dim; gloomy

3

shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon)

7

to wrap up; to pack; to cover; to envelop; to conceal (a feeling); to hide

7

to be lit (e.g. candle, lamp, light bulb); to be lighted; to be burning

1

fire; flame; blaze

1

killing time; staving off boredom

1