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master; expert

1

naming (esp. of a commercial product or company); branding

1

unnecessary; unneeded

1

flowerpot; plant pot

4

broken into small fragments; smashed to atoms; fragments and splinters; smithereens

10

inheritance; bequest; legacy; heritage

1

shovel; spade; scoop

1

excavation; digging

5

filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)

5

blank; blank space; gap; time spent not doing something (e.g. working, practicing)

1

whether or not (in phrases like "I don't know whether or not I can come")

8

to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to let live; to keep alive; to revive; to resuscitate

1

trifling; trivial

1

to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated

2

to perceive; to sense; to take in; to grasp; to feel

2

whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself

2

that is; namely; i.e.

1

to breathe

3

slight movement; slight tremor; quiver

1

even

1

difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

2

stop

2

directly opposite; right in front

1

perfectly; right on the mark; spot on; enough; sufficiently; thoroughly

3

small bottle

2

to beat vigorously; to rain strikes upon someone; to tan someone's hide; to mercilessly pummel; to beat the daylights out of

5

demise

1

to snatch (and run); to carry off; to swipe; to scoop up (and remove; sand, earth, etc.)

2

beyond that point; after that

4

to raise; to bring to (someone's attention); to appeal to (reason, emotions, etc.); to work on (one's emotions); to complain; to sue (a person)

2

confidence; trust; faith; credit (finance)

8

roof tile

1

to roll up; to be rolled up

2

white smoke

1

to come together; to join; to get married; to become a married couple

2

group work

1

to make up a haiku poem

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unless one ...; if one does not ...

1

practice; practising; training; study

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haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae

2

to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with

2

cucumber (Cucumis sativus)

1

crossing; intersection

2

family restaurant

5

commonplace; ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; mundane

2

to be crowded; to be packed; to be jammed

1

evacuees; displaced persons; refugees

1

distinction; differentiation; classification

3

fashion

2

trendy

1