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              all
            
            
              both
            
            
              entirely
            
            
              (used for emphasis) even
            
            
              already
            
            
              (not) at all
            
            
              metropolis
            
            
              capital
            
            
              big city
            
            
              the whole
            
            
              elegant
            
            
              refined
            
            
              without exception
            
            
              also
            
            
              too
            
            
              still
            
            
              used in a sentence to add an inference or interrogative tone
            
         
        
                     
            
              important
            
            
              vital
            
            
              to want
            
            
              to ask for
            
            
              will
            
            
              going to (as future auxiliary)
            
            
              may
            
            
              must
            
            
              (used in a comparison) must be
            
            
              probably
            
            
              if
            
            
              essential points
            
            
              necessary
            
            
              necessity
            
            
              to desire
            
            
              to need
            
            
              should
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              of
            
            
              ~'s (possessive particle)
            
            
              (used after an attribute)
            
            
              (used to form a nominal expression)
            
            
              (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
            
            
              truly
            
            
              really
            
            
              indeed
            
            
              target
            
            
              to lift up
            
            
              few
            
            
              small
            
            
              to fetch
            
            
              to move
            
            
              to get
            
            
              to pick up
            
            
              to force
            
         
        
          
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              federal government
            
         
        
                     
            
              to ascertain
            
            
              to act on
            
            
              to criticize
            
            
              to pass on
            
            
              classifier for batches, lots, military flights
            
            
              tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges)
            
            
              to slap
            
            
              to scrape
            
            
              wholesale
            
            
              pie (loanword)
            
            
              land allocation
            
            
              to comment
            
            
              to strike
            
            
              to hit
            
            
              to chop
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              (once) again
            
            
              also
            
            
              both... and...
            
            
              and yet
            
            
              (used for emphasis) anyway
            
            
              and (used in the context when talking about fractions)
            
            
              in adddition
            
         
        
                     
            
              same as否 (dated used in old text only), not 
            
            
               no 
            
            
               negative prefix 
            
            
               a final particle
            
         
        
                     
            
              to
            
            
              for
            
            
              for the benefit of
            
            
              to give
            
            
              to allow
            
            
              to do sth (for sb)
            
            
              (grammatical equivalent of 被)
            
            
              (grammatical equivalent of 把)
            
            
              (sentence intensifier)
            
            
              to supply
            
            
              to provide
            
            
              well provided for
            
            
              abundant
            
            
              glib
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
                     
            
              to think over; to consider
            
            
              to take into account of
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              individual
            
            
              this
            
            
              that
            
            
              size
            
            
              classifier for people or objects in general or an action
            
            
              indicates approximation when placed before numbers and after a verb
            
            
              adds emphasis when added before a complement used with a verb
            
            
              size
            
            
              height
            
            
              one
            
            
              possessive particle
            
            
              ten thousand dollars 
            
            
               bucks