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

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the most one can do; the best one can do; the best one can expect

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disadvantage; handicap; drawback; inadvisability; inexpediency; loss

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to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)

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my; our; one's own

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obstinate; stubborn; headstrong

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to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying

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earth (color, colour); ashen; deathly pale

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persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency

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flower bed

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rim; brim; edge; brink

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hairline; borders of the hair

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calm; serenity; tranquillity; tranquility

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(in) her way; peculiar to her

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to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear

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ten; 10; ten years of age

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deep blue; bright blue; ghastly pale; pallid; white as a sheet

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burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering

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from the bottom of one's heart; heartily; sincerely

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before or since; neither before nor after; no other time in one's life; stressing a particular moment or event as being unique or most extreme

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irreplaceable

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unrequited love; one-sided love

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and so; therefore; for that reason

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pointing out; identification

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lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication

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

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prediction; estimation

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bold; audacious; impudent; unashamed; unabashed

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throbbing with pain

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dust; trash; garbage; negligible amount; tiny bit; hustle and bustle (of life)

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to be buried; to be covered; to be hidden

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speaking voice; talking voice

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chain; chaining; connection; (genetic) linkage

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to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)

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deeply; keenly; severely; intently; carefully; closely

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crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift

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fatal; lethal

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fate; chance

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stifled laugh; chuckling; snickering

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monotonous

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laughing while reminiscing

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life; vitality; verve; vigor; vigour; animation

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to surpass; to outstrip; to excel

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harmless and inoffensive; bland; tepid

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thereupon; shortly thereafter

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direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter

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fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy

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to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence

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unguarded; frank; open

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to be still half asleep; to be half awake; to be not yet quite awake

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