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to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

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taste (in fashion, music, etc.); sense (e.g. of humour); flair

1

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

1

pluralizing suffix; nickname-forming suffix

1

pain; ache; -algia

1

silence (not speaking); muteness

3

knee; lap; knee and thigh (while sitting)

3

to kick (out at)

1

easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusing; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous

1

flaring up; burning hotly; flying into a rage; losing one's cool; opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes, mouth); (arch.) acting resolutely

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unable to stay (on); unable to endure being somewhere a second longer; feel like running away

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(feelings of) love

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emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment

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denial; negation; negation; NOT operation

3

to go out to meet; to receive; to call for; to summon; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to take (e.g. a wife)

5

breakfast

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certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons

4

thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward

4

dinner party; ceremonial dinner; dinner meeting (or lunch, breakfast)

3

one way or another; in many ways; in various ways

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firm; determined; resolute; conclusive

1

refusal; rejection; denial; veto

2

four

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500; five hundred; many

3

total energy; all efforts

1

do-or-die resistance; resistance to the bitter end

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putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the means for the end; getting one's priorities backwards

3

foodstuff; ingredient

3

pearl oyster (esp. Marten's pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata martensii)

4

location famous for production of something (usually food)

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inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity

2

to catch (a wild animal or fish); to capture; to hunt; to win (a title, prize, etc.); to conquer

1

to look toward; to have one's eyes drawn towards something

1

shellfish; seashell; shell

5

to look around; to look towards (us)

2

compared with

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good(-tasting); nice; delicious; attractive (offer, opportunity, etc.); appealing; convenient

2

to do; to have the nerve to (do)

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commercial value; commodity value; marketability

2

more than one can possibly use; countless (e.g. examples); (money) to burn; rolling in (cash)

3

cashew nuts

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fruit of a tree; nut; berry

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in one's own way or style

3

to be collected (of clams, etc.); to be gathered (of mushrooms, herbs, etc.); to be picked (of fruit, etc.); to be able to collect; to be able to extract; to be able to get

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starvation; famine; hunger

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high humidity

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crop; crops; (agricultural) produce; farm products

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natural enemy

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because; as; since; because of that; therefore; accordingly

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circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs

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