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local news section; the city desk

2

smoking a cigarette without holding it with one's fingers; holding a cigarette in one's mouth

1

(telephone) receiver

30

memo book; memo pad; notebook; notepad; scratchpad; scratch pad

3

to take notes

3

to begin to tremble

1

annoying; provoking

2

to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice); to trail off; to die away; to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.); to feel faint; to feel numb

2

to grasp; to get

2

to cling

2

critical condition

1

to spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail

1

boy; son; man

2

name of a disease

1

bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer

1

mode of life; ecology; (animal) territory

2

concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial

4

all; altogether; entirely; exactly like; just like; spitting image of

1

combination; pair; duo

1

news coverage; collecting data (e.g. for an article); covering (something for media); interview

2

to sidle up to

1

bank employee; bank staff member; bank clerk

2

conscious; deliberate; intentional

1

intonation; accent; modulation; inflection

1

to chip; to nick; to break; to lack

1

extra; more; unnecessary; needless; all the more; even more

1

to take down; to bring down; to drop off (a passenger); to let off; to withdraw (money); to use for the first time; to wear for the first time

4

(inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence

3

to stop midway; to interrupt

1

ethical

1

blood relationship; blood relative

3

the problem (at issue); the point at issue; problematic issue; problem

2

to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)

10

ear; hearing; edge; crust; selvedge (non-fray machined edge of fabrics); selvage

12

to bring near; to bring close; to let go near; to associate with; to bring (people) together; to let come near (of a person)

2

recorder (e.g. tape recorder, time recorder); recording device; recorder (musical instrument); English flute

1

note; memo; memorandum

4

several seconds

2

pull; patronage; tug; discount

1

to stop; to cease; to come to an end; to cut off

2

to become distant; to recede

2

just the other day; quite recently

1

guess; conjecture; surmise

1

recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement

3

to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at)

2

tone

2

to make round; to roll up; to seduce; to cajole; to round off (a fraction); (arch.) to lump together

1

to go ahead; to proceed; to carry on

1

to move around

1

let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...

1