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To stand about without any aim or purpose. To stand about idly,to linger or to hang around.
Example from book: (page.3) " And don't loiter. It's not safe" |
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A wide-reaching food shortage. It's a drastic shortage or dearth. Severe hunger or starvation.
Example from book: (page.4) Now for nearly five years, there had been famine. |
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A puppeteer, especially one controlling marionettes.One who manipulates, sometimes in an underhanded or fraudulent manner.
Example from the book: (page.11) A head, which Jiro thought he reconized as that of Mochida, one of the left-hand manipulators, poked out of the narrow opening. |
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Expansiven or extensive. Spreading out in different directions or an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about.
Example from the book: (page.12) Instead he gave a remendous kick which should have sent the boy before him sprawling to the stones, but the boy, his face set, kept his balance. |
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Money or goods given as charity to the poor. Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food. Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity.
Example from the book: (page.21) One September evening, soon after dusk, a small group of Komuso monks approached the entrance of the rice brokerage of Yamamoto and begged for alms. |
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Occurring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals; not thick or dense. To scatter; to disperse. Not so close together.
Example from the book: (page.24) She might even feel that he had repaid some of his terrible debt from being born and surviving, bleeding their sparse lives like a leech on a starving ox. |
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to steal(especially something of small value)
Example from the book: (page.38) He filched from his father`s house copies of the texts for the next two plays so that Jiro could memorize them in advance. |
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To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships. To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.To last, to suffer patiently or to indurate.
Example from the book: (page.39) His only son is a fool, currently masquerading as a puppeteer, to be sure, but how long can the travesty endure. |
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