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one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)

5

construction; architecture (of buildings)

2

woodworking; woodwork; woodworker; carpenter

3

exposure to wind; severe criticism

1

to assist; to help out

1

cold-bloodedness; coldheartedness

1

brute; beast; monster; inhuman person; ungrateful person

1

to open a path

2

tenacity; endurance

2

recipe (cooking)

2

to attract someone with food

1

penmanship; calligraphy

1

writing brush; paintbrush; writing with a brush; drawing with a brush; writing (composing text); the written word

1

thin strip of bamboo

17

roundish; sort of round

2

quadrilateral; square

1

to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations

1

name and address (on an envelope, etc.); (addressee's) name; addressee

1

sender (e.g. of mail)

1

to address

1

call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)

2

there is no need to ...; it should hardly be necessary to ...

4

discarding; throwing away; getting rid of; dismissal (of an employee); firing; sacking

5

worst; worst-case (scenario)

1

you must be kidding; hey, come on!; surely not!

1

glancing (look)

19

inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through

1

(eating up) quickly; in no time; quickly (sticking out one's tongue); licking; licking up; (peeling off) in one go

3

business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed

22

payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing

2

opening fully; full throttle; full power

1

brothers and sisters; siblings; half-siblings; step-siblings; mate; friend

7

being heard (by others); being overheard; being leaked (of plans, secrets, etc.); going in one ear and out the other

2

high-class; high-grade; high-quality; high-ranking; high-level; senior

10

lunch; midday meal

1

way; method; means; resource; course

14

manners; etiquette; polite behaviour

8

countermeasure; counter-measure

2

to be greedy; to devour greedily

2

to lie in wait (for); to be on the watch (for); to wait (for); to watch (for)

9

it says ...; it reads ...; ... is written

2

to kill time

1

to handle; to operate (a machine, etc.); to deal with (an issue); to manage; to treat (someone); to deal with (someone)

10

Internet

1

listings magazine; informational magazine

1

word of mouth; comments written online (about a product, service, etc.); online reviews

1

business world; business circles; (the) industry

1

brother-in-law; stepbrother; sworn brother

1

to be profitable; to yield a profit

2

guard; watchman

11