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The 300 most significant words in the first 164 pages, ranked by frequency.
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A
above
10
account
13
action
24
admitted
13
ago
11
alco
25
alcohol
33
alcoholic
166
alcoholics
88
alcoholism
47
alone
19
amount
11
anonymous
22
answer
16
approach
23
attention
14
attitude
22
avoid
16
B
bad
12
basis
20
become
23
becomes
11
beginning
14
believe
41
best
28
better
56
book
45
bring
13
brought
12
business
54
C
cannot
37
care
14
carry
10
case
19
cases
20
certain
41
chance
21
change
11
chapter
13
children
23
comes
10
commenced
10
common
13
con
16
conception
10
concerned
10
condition
24
conditions
11
control
20
convinced
11
course
37
creator
12
D
dad
17
deal
13
dealing
11
decide
10
dence
12
desire
15
dif
20
different
11
direction
13
doctor
40
doing
17
doubt
15
down
35
drink
87
drinker
18
drinkers
16
drinking
137
drinks
14
drunk
27
E
ed
10
effect
11
either
11
end
13
entirely
19
especially
10
experience
58
F
face
22
fact
21
failed
18
faith
33
families
15
family
96
father
25
fear
28
feel
36
feeling
18
fellows
21
fellowship
20
felt
25
follow
10
followed
16
friend
42
friends
52
full
13
fully
16
G
gets
11
getting
14
god
131
goes
10
going
27
good
70
greater
16
grow
10
H
half
10
hand
11
happened
16
happiness
12
happy
16
hard
24
hardly
11
having
18
head
19
health
15
help
47
helped
10
helpful
25
himself
62
hold
12
home
42
homes
11
honest
14
honestly
10
hope
24
hopeless
11
hospital
26
hours
12
house
17
human
23
hurt
18
husband
61
husbands
14
I
idea
30
ideas
14
ill
13
illness
12
important
14
impossible
12
individual
13
instead
13
interested
18
inventory
14
J
job
14
K
kind
23
knows
19
L
lack
12
large
13
later
17
learned
10
less
12
life
95
likes
10
liquor
34
live
29
lives
29
living
28
longer
10
lose
13
lost
19
love
23
M
makes
12
making
17
man
125
matter
35
matters
17
mean
16
means
33
meet
14
member
11
men
84
mental
25
mind
35
moment
13
money
24
months
16
morning
23
mother
13
must
67
myself
21
N
nature
10
nd
42
necessary
11
neither
11
night
21
normal
13
number
16
O
off
26
opportunity
12
others
59
ourselves
69
P
page
31
part
19
past
31
pay
11
period
11
person
41
personal
26
physical
14
place
34
placed
14
point
27
position
17
possible
16
power
66
powerful
12
prejudice
12
present
12
principles
26
problem
39
problems
33
program
20
prospect
11
provided
10
Q
question
10
quit
10
qxd
28
R
read
12
real
27
realize
14
reason
26
recover
22
recovered
10
recovery
22
religious
29
remember
16
resentment
15
rest
11
returned
12
rst
34
S
sel
13
self-pity
10
sense
26
serious
22
several
14
sex
21
sh
10
sick
26
simple
17
since
17
situation
21
sober
17
sobriety
12
solution
14
sort
13
spirit
19
spiritual
104
start
13
step
25
stop
54
story
18
successful
14
suggest
12
suggestions
12
sure
33
T
takes
10
taking
12
talk
34
themselves
19
therefore
11
thinking
28
thousands
10
three
19
thus
14
today
10
together
10
tolerance
10
toward
14
town
10
treatment
16
trouble
15
true
20
truth
13
trying
25
U
understand
27
understanding
24
understood
12
unless
18
use
27
useful
10
usually
24
W
want
38
wanted
10
wants
28
whatever
17
whole
11
wife
57
willing
36
wish
20
wives
19
women
22
word
10
work
53
worked
10
world
38
worse
11
worth
10
wrong
16
Y
yes
15
yourself
25