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dealing appropriately (with a situation); taking proper measures; handling (an issue) carefully; making the best of (a bad bargain)

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to crack (person's voice); to squeak

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to be beside oneself; to lose one's head; to go mad with something

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framework (of a building); foundation; mainstay; support; supporter

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private opinion; personal view; personal opinion

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strategy; military tactics

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(great mental) resources; quick brain; resourcefulness; good wits

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rewards and punishments; rewarding good conduct and punishing evildoing

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thoughts; opinion; however much money you wish to give (as alms, a fee at a museum, etc.); fondness (for a significant other, etc.; often used teasingly); love

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(an actor) conveying qualities of a character without gestures or speech; implied acting; implicitly asserting one's will (e.g. by sheer force of personality); performance using one's stomach (e.g. by drawing a face on it and animating it using one's abdominal muscles); acrobatics performed on a laid-out person's belly

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comparing and adjusting; reconciling; lapping; precision surface finishing; margination

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office work; clerical work; administration; business; affairs

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other party; opposite party; opposing team; one's opponent; one's adversary

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announcement; notice

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to diffuse; to spread throughout; to prevail; to become widespread; to reach everyone

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to rub together; to reconcile (ideas, proposals, plans); to compare and adjust

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handyman; utility man; odd-job man

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evening; evening hour

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foreign affairs

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maximum; extreme; utmost

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feeling good; feeling at ease; feeling easy

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straight face; composed expression; nonchalant look

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presence; dignity; corpulence; obesity

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great delight; great satisfaction; rapture

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sound effect

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say; well; um; er

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corridor; gallery; hallway; cloister (i.e. covered walk typically circling a building or garden, esp. in a palace or place of worship)

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easternmost tip (point, extremity, etc.)

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quality control; QC

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ovum; ovule; egg cell

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gorge; ravine; canyon; glen

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perilous pass (on a route or journey); rough spot

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number; number plate; license plate

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selecting a suitable person; personnel selection

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difficult voyage; stormy passage; hard flight; rough going; running into trouble; proceeding with difficulty

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chopping block; springboard for discussion; draft proposal; tentative plan

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rough plan; draft

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putting that aside; that said; apart from that; anyway; be that as it may

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old body; aged person; elderly person

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scenic; beautiful; picturesque

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both banks (of a river)

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role; duty; responsibility

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to cut and even up; to cut several pieces to the same size

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still; even now

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thankfully; fortunately; luckily; mercifully

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odious; hateful; awful; horrid; revolting

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decision-making body

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shrewdness; sharpness; astuteness; acumen; tact

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(much) more than others; exceedingly; extremely; unusually

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involuntarily; reluctantly; against one's inclination; against one's will; as a matter of unpleasant necessity; despite oneself

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