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injury; harm; evil influence; damage

1

dialogue; discussion; conversation; interaction

1

somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why

1

vague; obscure; indistinct; hazy; ambiguous

3

ability to think

2

racing (an engine); idling (an engine); going in circles (esp. argument, discussion, etc.); spinning one's wheels

2

emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness

1

if; in case; supposing

6

limit; restriction

2

(most) important; principal; pivotal; key; cardinal

1

visitor; caller

2

pink; erotic (usually used in relation to the sex industry); blue; pornographic

1

to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

1

purpose of a visit

3

everyone; everybody; all; everything; all

1

Oh well; yeah; good; OK

2

each; every; all

1

to take home; to carry home; to bring back home; to take out (e.g. food)

1

errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit

1

erratic; offbeat; wild; extraordinary

1

history of; experience of

1

list; enumeration

1

to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble

2

custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice

1

whole; entirety; whatever (is the matter)

1

shall ...; to assume; to suppose

2

counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter

1

to go on a trip; to go out to play; to go and visit (a friend)

3

concise; brief; succinct; compact (style)

1

number of days; period of days; daily interest rate

5

to miss (doing); to fail (to do)

1

to suspect

4

one month

3

successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another

2

couch; bench; ottoman

1

near; close; beside; vicinity; proximity; besides

3

any number of times

1

to add (one thing to another); to add (a few more words, an explanation, etc.)

5

full of; brimming with

1

to surface

1

approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction

1

to start to say; to attempt to say; to be about to say; to speak to; to address

3

mainly; primarily

1

at that time; in those days; at that moment; then

1

relation; relationship

2

it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?

1

close (e.g. of business); leaving (e.g. school); being outdone; compare unfavourably (with); closing price (stockmarket); sink mark (casting, moulding)

2

rule; regulation

2

editorial department

1

circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances

3