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to have no chance (of succeeding)

1

to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off

1

to deceive (with words); to cajole; to talk into; to explain away (e.g. unpleasant evidence); to argue away; to wheedle

1

north wind; northerly wind

2

to blow against; to spray (paint, etc.) (onto a surface)

1

traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist

2

intimidation; threat; bluster

2

histology

1

to name; to call; to christen; to term

11

science; learning; scholarship; arts and sciences; academic pursuits

3

engineering

7

research establishment; research institute; laboratory

99

energy revolution

2

gathering spot; haunt; rendezvous; meeting place; hang-out

3

permanent stationing; staying permanently; resident (program, file, etc.)

6

advisory level; warning level

5

high (e.g. ball in baseball); highish; on the expensive side; comparatively expensive; wait tile which produces a winning hand with a higher score

1

to gather

1

sign; mark; symbol; sign (e.g. positive, negative)

2

payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing

1

(sense of) cleanliness; (sense of) freshness

2

reception (desk); information desk; receipt; acceptance

1

(wireless) transceiver; radio; walkie-talkie

1

all the houses (in town)

1

direct control

2

transport pipe; pipeline; duct

11

entry (into a library, museum, etc.); entering

2

information; news; report; reward; retribution

1

garbage disposal; refuse disposal; waste treatment

1

automatic operation (machine); automatic driving (vehicle)

1

lightning; electric illumination; light from an electric source

1

seven tenths; seventy percent; seven hundreds; seven percent

3

to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)

1

bulky; massive; thick; heavy

4

elderly woman; senior lady-in-waiting

1

body; group; party; gang; troupe; troop

1

upper floor (of a building)

3

above-ground floor; ground floor

2

to go underground; to go into hiding

1

demodulation; recovery; getting back to form

1

bump (e.g. on forehead); lump; protuberance; swelling

1

nostrils; wings of the nose

1

wrinkled; full of wrinkles

1

expression; looks

1

heir; inheritor; successor

1

to stab; to thrust (into); to plant (in the ground); to stick upright

1

garbage (rubbish) collection point

3

(corrugated) cardboard

3

to pile up; to accumulate

1

damage

2