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binding force

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gradually; little by little; soon; before long; here and there; scattered

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to be completely weakened; to be utterly exhausted; to be worn out; to be completely at a loss; to be at one's wits' end; to be greatly annoyed (by)

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hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done

1

all at once

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Japanese beech (Fagus crenata); Siebold's beech

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Gabb

1

to blow out; to spout out

1

sense of reality

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severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous

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escalation

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unrelated

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magnetic field; ambience; atmosphere; focal point

2

to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely

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to fit (inside something)

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(public) peace; stability; tranquility; tranquillity

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to become a couple; to be man and wife; to be married to

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husband

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unexpected (joy, success, etc.); unanticipated; beyond what one hoped; beyond one's expectations

2

large (amount of money); huge; hefty; expensive

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insurance payout; insurance money

1

housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker

2

sense for (how to use) money; money sense

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pachinko; mechanical gambling game superficially resembling pinball; slingshot; catapult; pistol

3

coming and going; going back and forth (between); commuting (to work, school, etc.); attending regularly; passbook; bankbook

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(way of) spending money; way with money; spending habits

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chasing after men

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credit sales

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credit-card loan

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debt; loan; liabilities; number of games under the .500 mark

3

blacklist

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to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded

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high interest rate

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licentious; profligate; dissipated; riotous; wild

1

interest (on a loan, deposit etc.)

1

running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt); moonlight flit; skipping town overnight; upping and leaving under the cover of darkness; midnight vanishing act

2

leaving school during a term

1

to use completely; to use up; to exhaust; to exhaust someone's civility; to give up (on someone)

1

middle-aged woman

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implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication; obscurely

1

unbearable; intolerable; insufferable

1

to be subject to punishment; to be punished

1

natural; inborn; innate; inherent; characteristic

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ability to take action; ability to take initiatives; energy; dynamism; drive

1

knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things

1

distribution (of information, news, etc.); broadcast; delivery; transmission; streaming (over the Internet)

1

illicit sale; smuggling; bootlegging; trafficking

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to save up (money)

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to eat oneself out of house and home; to eat up completely

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deadlock; stalemate; impasse; dead end

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