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sightseeing; tourism

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preliminary inspection; having a look in advance; preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes); siding (on a house); clapboard

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heavy-hearted; depressed; dispirited; (feeling) down; feeling reluctant (to do)

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to go to meet (someone); to go to pick up

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unwelcome; nerdish; unpopular

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alliance; union; league

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success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence

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painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing

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parents' day (day when parents observe their children in school)

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to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)

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to love; to cherish; to admire; to appreciate

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to flare up; to burst into flames

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defenseless; defenceless; unprotected; vulnerable

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for example; for instance; e.g.

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magical; voodoo; magic

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to carry a joke too far

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confrontation; showdown

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to pass; to pass on; to give (something) a miss; to cut it out; to knock off (for the day); to let the matter drop

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

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(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze

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to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)

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what number (in a sequence); what rank

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incomplete; unfinished; imperfect

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to count; to enumerate

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four-digit number; thousands column

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500; five hundred; many

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specifications; specs

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precious; valuable

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connection; link; relationship

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to call; to name; to call oneself ...; to go by the name of ...; to purport (to be); to profess

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satisfactory; decent; good; proper; worthy

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to become slightly sweaty; to sweat a little; to become moist with sweat

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to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)

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while in class

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(one's) figure; build; physique; style

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similar to; like

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comparison

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fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking

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each; respectively

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to lend a hand; to help

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exception

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(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it; that sort of (thing mentioned immediately prior)

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no concern of mine; nothing to do with me

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(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of

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big quarrel; huge fight; big row

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hegemony

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to go around; to make a circle around; to surround; to circle; to come around (of a season, anniversary, turn, etc.); to return

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major war; great war; world war

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without

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cause; origin; source

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