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minute difference; tiny difference; razor-thin margin

1

mechanism; machinery; system; structure; organization

2

tour (e.g. Tour de France)

3

Villon

3

to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to load (luggage); to carry; to send out (on the airwaves, etc.); to deceive

7

light (color, taste, etc.); faint (e.g. smell); pale; faint (feeling, hope, etc.); fleeting; slight

3

bursting; rupture; explosion; breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.); breaking off

3

revival (of an old system, custom, fashion, etc.); restoration; return; resurrection; rebirth

38

wickedness; evil; iniquity; wrongness

3

phantom; vision; something fleeting; short-lived dream; fabled item; mythical thing

1

structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance

4

challenge; defiance; dare; attempt; try

3

rock; boulder; crag

7

to hold one's breath; to catch one's breath

4

to listen carefully; to strain one's ears

6

to take a load off

1

sight (e.g. of a gun); aim; alignment

1

to become settled; to be fixed

1

percussion hammer; firing hammer; cocking piece

1

origin; beginning; start

3

evening sun; setting sun

1

orange (colour, color)

1

calendar; calender (machine for flattening things)

1

sun; sunshine; sunlight

1

school gate

3

fallen leaves; leaf litter; falling leaves

4

seasonal change of clothing; changing one's dress for the season; renovation; facelift; redesign

1

window-side seat

1

after school (at the end of the day)

3

5th day of the month; five days

1

increasing the number of staff; hiring more people

6

(place) right in the center; dead center; dead centre; exact middle; heart

1

woman; girl

4

lacrosse

2

club activities; extracurricular activities

3

to kill time

1

going to and from school; school commute

1

to keep (a person) waiting

2

yoo-hoo; halloo; hi-de-ho; howdy; hey

1

to smell sweet; to be fragrant

1

schoolboy; male student

5

thumb; big toe

2

booing

2

to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size

6

to cheer; to applaud; to jeer; to mock; to make fun of

1

promise; agreement; arrangement; something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)

2

seeing someone off and later welcoming them back; taking someone to and fro

2

away (game, goal, etc.); opponents' ground; unfamiliar surroundings; feeling out of place; enemy territory

1

anyhow; in any case

3

excuse; explanation

6