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recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement

13

to grow fat; to gain weight; to grow fertile; to be refined (palate); to be discerning (eye, ear); to become rich

6

trouble; difficulties; dispute; confusion; disorder; mess

6

melody; tune

6

organized crime; organised crime

6

castle

15

to be imaginable; to be conceivable

5

to take away; to carry off

3

battle zone

2

beyond help; there's nothing that can be done

2

new-generation

1

user; consumer; employer

2

to cut one's way through; to tide over; to struggle through; to get over

24

to do whatever it takes; to use every trick in the book; to use any means; to stop at nothing

1

there is no need to; it is fine if you don't; unnecessary; does not match; out of reach of

13

madly in love; completely charmed (by); from the heart; entirely; (arch.) bottom of one's heart

1

trivial; slight

37

to drag along; to take (a suspect to the police); to drag (someone) away

6

to love

3

I don't know ...; how about ...?; I wonder; what about ..?

16

bark; howl; roar; bellow

4

to come alive; to get going; to start to move

19

to be on the verge; to be on the brink; to get close

8

to coax; to cajole; to wheedle; to roll up and put into (something); to bundle up

4

superstitious

1

revival; restoration; resuscitation

1

skeletal frame; skeleton; framework; frame; outline

1

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

4

to use abusive language; to curse; to call someone names

6

preference; priority; precedence

12

slow; lagging; tardy

2

phenothiazine

1

stagnation; inactivity

11

medicine; chemicals

7

teenager

15

sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly

18

protection; defense; providence; amulet; charm

8

secret passage; underground passage; loophole; hole one can go through; opening

1

equality (esp. of status); equal footing; equal terms

20

to pay back a debt; to have one's revenge; to settle a score; to get back at someone

1

cliche; platitude; formula; set phrase

1

vague; desultory; distracted; loose; half-hearted; diffuse

1

one's social position; one's place; one's standing

6

to kick into the air; to kick up; to kick from below

2

to be infected; to be contagious

2

to look upward

3

to coat a surface with something that adheres strongly when hardened (i.e. grout, plaster, lacquer); to cover up (e.g. truth); to varnish (e.g. with lies, rumors)

1

to wipe off; to wipe out; to expunge

2

bulky; massive; thick; heavy

21

superficial; shallow; frivolous; careless; sliding along the surface of something; being slippery

1