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precisely because

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dilettante; person of fantastic taste

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to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

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having a high threshold (for entry); difficult to approach; feeling awkward to go to (of someone's home)

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meaning; significance

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undivided attention; concentration

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ultimate; final; last; eventual

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joining a company; getting a job with a company; entering a company

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person in the same line of business; people in the same trade; the trade; the profession

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intellectual

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firm; strong; solid; stable

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and yet; though; when; in spite of

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prejudice; bias; distorted view

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text; textbook

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prudence; discretion; thought

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battlefield; battleground

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good luck; fortune

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terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful

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rival; competition

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(act of) encouragement; stimulus; incentive

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unripe; green; inexperienced; immature; unskilled

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ruler; measure

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to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

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on and after; as from; hereafter; thereafter; since

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opinion; point of view; visual point

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from the beginning; from scratch

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to make a fresh start; to turn over a new leaf; to call again; to visit again; to come again

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love

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to emboss; to print out; to print; to work out (e.g. policy); to hammer out; to strike (a drum indicating the end of a performance)

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amusement; entertainment; recreation; pleasure; pastime; hobby

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maximum preference; maximum priority; priority handling

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to look down on; to make light of

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specific gravity; relative density; relative importance; weight

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for oneself; for one's own sake; on one's own account

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until now; so far; up to the present

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impressions; thoughts; feelings; opinions

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narrator; storyteller; reciter

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symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); certain; unnamed; undisclosed

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circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period

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spoiler; revealing important plot points of a story; spoiling a story

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prevention; check

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because of; on account of; regarding; per; apiece

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symbol used in place of a censored word (e.g. blank, circle, X, asterisk); turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character

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lazy; idle; indolent; slothful

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female high-school student

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synchronization; synchronized swimming

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one year ago

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finishing reading

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sales pitch; sales lure; catchphrase

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sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt

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