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your house; your home; your husband; your organization; you

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bold; daring; audacious

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to strike back at; to bite back; to turn on; to rise against; to oppose; to defy

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intimacy; friendship; familiarity

1

(Chinese) chili oil; chile oil; chilli oil

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to become stiff (of muscles); to get absorbed in; to develop a passion for; to be elaborate; to be intricate

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obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of restaurants)

1

to use and then throw away

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charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of

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years later

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to persuade; to coax; to solicit; to seduce; to make advances; to make a play

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some time ago; recently; lately; last (Sunday, etc.); previous

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parents; both parents

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a help; assistance

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is that so?

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idle complaint; grumble; moha (ignorance, folly)

1

ahead; before; the future

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endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint

1

bag; satchel; briefcase; basket

1

end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap

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boyfriend; he; him

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from afar; over a great distance; all the way

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to yearn for; to long for; to follow (someone); to idolize (for virtue, learning, status, etc.)

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to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)

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childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate

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he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing

1

laundry; the washing

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brisk and efficient; diligent; devoted; spirited

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underwear; undergarment; underclothes; lingerie

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pluralizing suffix

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to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to be understood; to be comprehended; to be honored

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shoji (paper sliding door)

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shade; shadow; behind (something); other side; background; behind the scenes

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figure; form; appearance; dress; state; condition

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to peek (through a keyhole, gap, etc.); to look down into (a ravine, etc.); to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.); to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at; to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.); to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.)

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having done that; if that is done; if it is done in that way

1

illegal entry (into a country); illegal immigration

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the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality

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means; way; measure

1

entry into a country

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it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...

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easy; simple; there's no way that ...

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self-consciousness; self-awareness

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

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weekly publication; weekly magazine

3

shadow; tail; following

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cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky

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to do whatever it takes; to use every trick in the book; to use any means; to stop at nothing

3

business

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whitewashing; glossing over; lip service; deftly finishing up; putting on the final touches

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