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to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)

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practice problem

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half; semi-; half-past; odd number; (arch.) unit of land area (595.8 m^2)

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each (person); everyone; individual; respective

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to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)

2

to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher

1

extra; more; unnecessary; needless; all the more; even more

1

to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall

1

eight; 8

3

not a chance; not likely; oh no; yuck; fault; defect

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someone; somebody

4

to chase away; to drive away; to drive out

1

chance; opportunity

4

bee; wasp; hornet

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to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up

2

look!; look out!; hey!; look at me!; there you are!

14

there; over there; genitals; private parts; that far; that much

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detective

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Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia); yak-killer hornet

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dangerous; risky

4

Hachikō; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935)

1

to aim at (with a weapon, etc.); to be after (something or someone); to have an eye on; to aim for; to set up as a goal

5

at once; immediately; right now

5

to fling; to throw off (clothes); to kick off (boots)

1

black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty

2

attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation

3

once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time

1

hornet; yellow jacket; wasp (of subfamily Vespinae); Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia); yak-killer hornet

1

to attack; to assail; to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.); to make a sudden visit

1

barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty

1

(a) life; (a) command

1

to narrowly escape (e.g. death); to hang onto (life); (arch.) to ascertain; (arch.) to make definite

1

next; following; subsequent; stage; station

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if you value your life

1

shame; embarrassment; disgrace

3

to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign

3

sanity; consciousness; soberness

1

only; merely; just; at most; no more than

4

to wear (clothes) stylishly; to dress oneself stylishly

1

scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful

11

lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision

22

at the last moment; this late in the game

1

one's line of sight; one's gaze; one's eyes (looking); glance; gaze; look

1

hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing

1

life; life force; lifetime; lifespan; most important thing; foundation

1

to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end

2

certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)

4

compared to

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to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)

5

to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen

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