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in swarms; in great crowds

1

declining birth rates; decrease in the number of children

1

reorganization (e.g. of a company); reorganisation; consolidation; scrap-and-build

1

closing of a school; closed school

1

postbox; mailbox; post; position; post (e.g. goalpost); post- (e.g. post-Cold War)

1

to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate

1

such; like that; that sort of; very

4

way of saying (something); way of putting it; wording; phrasing; language; expression

1

ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice

1

purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention

2

to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case

1

similarly; same (idea); same (name)

1

to sit for an examination

1

suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange

2

huh!; oh; wow; I see

1

disclosure; exposure; revelation

1

to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol

1

same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case

7

fellow; mutual; companion; comrade

1

to hold back others from achieving success; to stand in the way of; to sabotage

1

to come together; to merge; to fit; to match; to be profitable; to be equitable

4

absurd; ridiculous; silly; ludicrous; nonsensical; asinine

2

each school

1

one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself

1

to pass (examination)

2

anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside

1

old boy; alumnus; graduate; out of bounds (golf)

7

cooperation; collaboration

1

had better ...; had better not ...

2

I see; that's right; indeed

2

alma mater

1

fame; reputation; popularity; rumour (rumor); talk

1

to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)

2

white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine

1

Mr (junior); master; boy

4

to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come

1

Takimoto

2

music room

1

digital versatile disc; DVD

1

cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull

1

to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound

1

huge; big; gargantuan

1

voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)

1

to talk; to chat; to chatter

1

to escape; to run away

1

information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.

2

to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)

1

thanks (for coming, helping, etc.); glad you could make it; tiredness; fatigue

1

something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)

3

harvest; crop; ingathering; fruits (of one's labors); gain; result

1