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attentively; with great attention to detail (e.g. when teaching); patiently

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few days

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to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)

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baptism

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to be misleading

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(in) one's own way

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fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)

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Trouble Shooter

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phew; whew; huff; whoo; wohoo

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with a complacent smile; with a smile of satisfaction

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guess; conjecture

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wrong; different; not like that

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irrefutable evidence; smoking gun; solid evidence; incontestable proof; dead giveaway

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frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)

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to insist on one's own ideas; to have one's own way

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to shuffle (on one's bottom or knees); to crawl; to shift position (of an object)

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to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize

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retailing; repeating (someone else's words, opinion, etc.); parroting; echoing

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in one's own way or style

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to have something on one's mind; to have (undisclosed) reservations; to feel conflicted

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weight; weight (e.g. of someone's words); burden; importance; significance

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reduction by half; halving

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to be satisfied (with an explanation, apology, etc.); to be happy

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instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for

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to go through; to suffer; to experience (something unpleasant)

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concrete example

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not a chance; not likely; oh no; yuck; fault; defect

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image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition

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to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind

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strange; unfamiliar; mysterious; suspicious; (lit.) of an unknown nature

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goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre

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older brother; elder brother

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to be hazy; to be misty

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being cleared (doubt, misgivings, etc.); being dispelled; melting away; melting (of ice)

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motive; incentive; motif

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yesterday

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sympathy; empathy; response

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showy; ostentatious

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pish; pooh; I see; oh; indeed

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yes; sure; gotcha; sycophantically; servilely; fawningly

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willingness (e.g. to do something); eagerness; motivation; inspiration; determination; high aspirations

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obedient; meek; docile; honest; frank; upfront (about one's feelings)

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it is, isn't it?; I know, right?; innit?

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to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)

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every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)

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one month

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half; semi-; half-past; odd number; (arch.) unit of land area (595.8 m^2)

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time; years; days; the Moon and the Sun

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one day; (on) a certain day

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evening meal; dinner

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