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stir; commotion; noise

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tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping); perfectly (suited)

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to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)

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and then; and so; and; so then

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not knowing one's social position; overweening; overreaching; forgetting who one is

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pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas

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that much; as much; to that extent; only that; that alone; no more than that

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in tatters; in pieces; wiped out

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scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer

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to fill to capacity; to pack; to complete; to tessellate

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to creep; to crawl

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to scoff; to laugh at; to make fun of; to ridicule; to jeer at

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rare; seldom

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staged event; faked situation; prearranged performance

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you (plural)

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princess; daughter of a nobleman

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match fixing; put-up job; fixed game

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support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy

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ordinary; sensible; commonplace

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(not) anything; (nothing) at all; (not) any

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world-leading

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wealthy person

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to give something weight; to give something dignity

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poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious

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money; metal

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to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot

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newsworthiness; news hook; topicality; popularity (of a topic, issue, etc.)

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to press for an answer; to shower questions on someone

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to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up

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shout of abuse; jeers; boos

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huff!; yo-heave-ho!; heigh-ho; to butter up; to suck up to

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a disgrace (to a whole group of people)

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standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability

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fraud; swindle

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unfounded (e.g. rumour); groundless; baseless; completely untrue

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anonymity; using an assumed name

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bulletin board; display board; notice board; electronic bulletin board; BBS

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irresponsibility

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inference; deduction; induction; reasoning

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walking sideways; staggering; striding; being rampant; being widespread; being prevalent

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discharge (e.g. of water from a dam); release (of young fish into a river, pond, etc.); stocking (a river, etc. with fish); (arch.) banishment; (arch.) exile

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daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision

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to torment; to pain; to inflict (physical) pain; to harass; to cause (emotional) pain; to afflict

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supposing; even if; granting that; temporarily; provisionally; for the time being

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acquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; bribery; buying off; corruption

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absurd; nonsensical; preposterous

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the exact opposite

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divergence; alienation; deviation; estrangement; separation; detachment

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to envy; to be envious of; to be jealous of

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few in number

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