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Watts

1

anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever

1

listen!; you see; mind you; remember

1

enjoyable; fun; pleasant; happy; delightful

1

cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant

1

feeling startled; getting a shock; prank; practical joke

4

to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)

1

swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence (pretense); show; going to restaurant, hotel etc. without a reservation or introduction

3

rather than (do ...)

1

abduction; kidnapping; kidnaping

3

to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage

1

direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)

1

firmly; absolutely; flatly; by far; far and away; by a long shot

1

program (e.g. TV); programme

3

itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally

1

terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

1

disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant

2

mother; mom; mum; wife

2

close; intimate; on good terms

1

to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)

1

mother

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roots

1

to recall; to remember; to recollect

1

tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy

1

script; libretto; scenario

1

to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint

1

eye drops; eyewash

1

until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to

2

preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)

1

television; TV; TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast

1

scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful

1

all; entire; whole; altogether

5

staged event; faked situation; prearranged performance

1

rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match

1

approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like

1

to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of

1

to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved

1

habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle

1

myself; yourself; I; me; you

4

work; job; labor; work

5

to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in

1

director

1

elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student

1

to think (about, of); to think over; to consider; to bear in mind; to think (that); to believe; to intend (to do)

2

like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to

2

was; were

1

anachronism

1

good thing; strong point; good family; prestigious school; the right moment; utter

1

tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation

1

to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)

1