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circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs

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morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning

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awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained

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to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted

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activity (esp. energetic); great efforts; conspicuous service; to flourish; to participate actively; to play an active role

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to pray; to wish

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to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)

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natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder

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beyond one's means or position

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to disappear; to vanish; to go out (of a fire, light, etc.); to die; to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.); to vanish (e.g. of hope); to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness)

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and; thereupon; because of that

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was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...

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wait-and-see (situation, stance, etc.); waiting to see (how things play out); watching developments (before acting)

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rebirth; reincarnation

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to punish; to penalize; to penalise

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proof; testimony; demonstration; verification; certification

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to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on

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unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself; stirring up a hornet's nest

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thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack

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to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up

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to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

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denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like

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unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all

2

to hold a thing in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to embrace (e.g. a baby); to take upon oneself; to be saddled with

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bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh

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form; method; system; formula

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class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate

2

two times; twice; two degrees

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to kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.); to slice (off); to lop (off); to cut (off)

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to get stuck with (some job); to end up with (something unpleasant)

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to receive permission; to leave (with someone's permission); to retire; to refuse; to beg off doing

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to reach; to get to; to arrive at

2

considerably; greatly; a lot

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inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)

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to walk; to move forward; to make progress

3

old enemy; longtime enemy; arch-enemy; traditional rival; longstanding foe

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to begin a trip; to depart; to embark; to die; to pass away; to depart this life

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that day; the very same day

4

warp; curvature; curve; arch

1

bed; berth; crib; cot; kip; bedroom

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to get up (e.g. from bed); to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life

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cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull

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this life; this world

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older sister; elder sister

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hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker

1

to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay

1

(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly

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overprotective; excessive care; overprotection; overprotectiveness

1

only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to

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strangeness; abnormality; disorder

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