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to toss away; to throw out

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splinters of glass; glass shards

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to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer

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younger scholar; future reference

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naked person (esp. child)

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handsome man; actor in a love scene

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confusion; mixing; merger

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comedian; actor who plays comic roles; figure of fun; laughing stock

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identifiable; personalized

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sudden change; complete change

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naked; nude; unvarnished (e.g. truth); plain (e.g. fact); frank

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couscous; cuscus (variety of phalanger)

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unclean; dirty; unsanitary; indecent; dirty (story, money, etc.); obscene

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coccyx; tailbone

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usual; ordinary; normal; ordinarily; normally; usually

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to comb back; to stroke upward; to smooth up

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(being moved) deeply; (feeling) profoundly; (going) straight to one's heart; going numb; stinging (pain)

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making doubly sure; points scored for good measure; insurance run (in baseball)

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uprooting; pulling up (a plant) by the roots; eradicating; rooting out; all (destroyed, stolen, etc.); completely

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well done; good job

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with a twitch; with a jerk; with a flutter; with a dip; with a bob

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high-pitched tone; soprano

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assistant engineer; (telegraph) operator

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contrary to expectations; or so we thought, but ...

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room; apartment; flat

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feeling good; feeling nice; feeling pleasant

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from the beginning; from the first; of course; not to mention ...; not only ... but also ...

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five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut); five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships; five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life

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with a grin

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puppet; marionette

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absolutely normal; perfectly commonplace; taken for granted

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to become like a different person; to have a change in personality

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rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power

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parsimonious spirit; tendency to be frugal; inclination to scrimp and save; tendency to fuss over trivial things; worrier's disposition

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to become locked; to lock

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fishing spot; fishing hole

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cheerful; jovial; weather; season; spirit of yang

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captain

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small fish; fry

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feeding ground

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coral

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to take root (of a plant); to strike root; to root; to become established (e.g. of an idea, a movement); to take hold; to take root

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coral reef

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tropical; tropical worsted fabric

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environmental conservation

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sunken ship

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setting on fire; setting afire

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parenthood; parent or someone with children on the way (esp. an expecting mother); (of a fish) containing roe (eggs)

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(crime of) indecency; obscenity

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