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magnificent; grand; majestic; splendid

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improvisation; improvised; impromptu; extempore

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to take someone down a peg; to cut someone down to size; to dampen someone's confidence

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grasping; seizing; holding; commanding; having control over

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700; seven hundred

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pursuer; pursuing party; posse

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one part; one portion; one section

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characteristic

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to practice magic; to practise magic

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without doing

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work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty

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one end; an end; part; fragment

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to take notice (of); to pay attention (to)

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lifeblood

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humanity; human nature

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bad luck; bad fortune; evil; wickedness

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eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo

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concentration (e.g. of a solution); enrichment; condensation

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to drive in (e.g. nail, stake); to hammer in; to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to input (data)

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pit; shaft

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compensating; making up for; supplementation

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simulated experience; simulation

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inferiority complex

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frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed

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like everyone else; like most people; like an ordinary person; as much as anyone else

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experience

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to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over

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education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education

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to employ; to hire; to charter

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income; receipts; revenue

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nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all

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leftover food; leftovers; food scraps

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thoughtlessly; rashly; unwisely; halfway; half-done; incomplete

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thorough; exhaustive; complete

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to torment; to punish; to treat harshly; to beat up; to give a drubbing; to cause damage to

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elderly woman; senior lady-in-waiting

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purse; handbag; wallet

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to steal; to plagiarize; to steal (a technique, idea, etc.); to do stealthily; to do during scant time; to steal a base

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punishment without a legal trial; vigilantism

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how; in what way

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poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow

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(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze

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silver coin

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to let (someone) take hold of your hand

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watch-keeping; guard; lookout

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dregs; sediment; lees (esp. sake); leftovers; by-product; worthless item; junk

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next morning

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to go to see (something, someone); to visit

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muzzling (a person); preventing (a person) from revealing something; silencing (a person); murdering (a person) to prevent them from revealing something

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