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spanking; traditional ceremony where the newly-wed wife, upon entering her new home, is hit on the rump with a straw bundle etc., to ensure her fertility

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role; assignment; position (of responsibility); post; part (in a play, film, etc.); role

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to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)

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friction; discord; strife

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striding; swaggering; strutting; lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around

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Grimm's Fairy Tales

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to loiter around; to wander about

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to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on

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uniform

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sunglasses

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polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful

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system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship

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brunette; woman or girl with brown skin or eyes

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denouncing; calling (e.g. somebody a thief); branding (as)

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(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially; separately; apart; additionally

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trouble; bother; annoyance; to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by)

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to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind

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to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in

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please

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cheerfully; excitedly

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inside the breast of one's clothing (esp. kimono); bosom; space between one's chest and outstretched arms; (one's) reach; heart (e.g. of a mountain); bosom (e.g. of nature)

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port

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touch; contact

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party; group; troop; one act; one action; one deed

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after staying up all night

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in confusion; in a fluster; in bewilderment; sobbing; tearfully; trembling (voice)

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mental; mental health; mental state; mental resolve

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my condolences

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failure; mistake; blunder

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motionlessly (e.g. stand, wait); (be) still; fixedly (e.g. gaze, stare); intently (e.g. listen, think); patiently (endure); stoically

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to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on

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service; duty; work

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grandchild

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agent

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to say; to be called; to do

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(one's) initials; first letter (of a name, sentence, etc.); initial; first

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to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

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merger; joining into one; amalgamation; melding; merging; annexation

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intelligence agency

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MI6 (from Military Intelligence Section 6); Secret Intelligence Service (UK); SIS

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outsourcing; subcontracting

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full-time service

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secretary-general; director-general; executive director; executive secretary

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is that so?

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serving concurrently as; holding the additional post of

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pressing; urging; demanding; demand

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relatives; one's family; friends; members of the same organization; followers; henchmen

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specialization; specialty; speciality; expertise

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originally; by nature; from the start

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handicraft; work; construction; maneuvering; manoeuvering

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