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town; city; municipal; urban

4

to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to spoil (of food); to go bad; to perish

1

grinding of the teeth; involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism; grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation; gnashing one's teeth; gritting one's teeth

1

heir to a throne

3

link; connection; filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.); thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; hedging

1

ground; crust (earth); foundation (building, etc.); base; constituency; power base

1

hardening; fortifying; pledge; vow; defense; defence

1

ancestor; forefather; originator; pioneer; grandfather

1

woman; female; feminine gender

4

evasion; avoidance; shirking; recusation (of a judge); taking exception (to a judge); challenge

1

high society

2

participation; joining; entry; adherence

1

word; vocabulary

1

to lead (a) life (usu. preceded by the type of life)

1

fatal; lethal

2

the place for; the time for; the level of

1

delay; lag; postponement; falling behind

1

milk

1

nightclothes; nightwear; sleepwear; pyjamas; pajamas; nightgown

1

hem; (trouser) cuff; bottom part; bottom edge; foot (of a mountain); tips (of hair)

1

highest grade; top class

1

late at night

1

hurriedly; in a hurry; in haste; (arch.) sudden

1

to creep; to steal up; to draw near unnoticed

1

day by day; with each passing day; as the days go by

1

what day; how many days

1

one; one

2

grain thief; sharpened tube for testing rice in bags; sashimi (sliced raw fish); stabbing; piercing

2

deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing

2

vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy

1

to request earnestly

1

absolutely; unconditionally; never (with neg. verb)

3

darkish; dusky

1

to pollute; to contaminate; to soil; to disgrace; to dishonour; to dishonor

1

deep pool; deep water; abyss; depths (e.g. of despair, etc.); grip (e.g. of death)

1

to drive away; to order off; to chase away; to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)

1

chewing; mastication; digestion (e.g. of words); assimilation; comprehension

1

there, there

1

operation; functioning; running

2

to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer

7

discovery (of a plot, misdeed, etc.); detection; exposure; disclosure

2

deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out

1

surplus; remainder; residue; margin; balance

1

to add (e.g. a postscript)

1

minuteness; one millionth

1

attaching and detaching; putting on and removing; installing and removing; desorption

1

wrong; bad; not allowed; not possible; failing grade

1

naturally; of course; understandably

1

all-purpose; utility; universal; all-powerful; almighty; omnipotent

1

what percentage; what ratio; what rate; what proportion

1