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Aesop's Fables

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north wind; northerly wind

6

traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist

3

hasty; rash; rushed; hurried; impatient; impetuous

1

reflection; reconsideration; introspection; regret; repentance; remorse

1

what; how; what (a) ...!; how ...!; surprisingly; to my amazement

1

to butter up; to try to get on the good side of

1

to request earnestly

1

to be ruined (reduced to poverty); to fall low; to go under; to come to ruin

1

bad-tempered

1

strategy; tactics

1

conversion; diversion; changeover; commutation; switchover

1

policy; course; plan (of action); magnetic needle

1

to get a big surprise; to be astonished

1

bizarre plan; perplexing strategy; outlandish scheme

1

fighting bravely; strenuous efforts

2

dim; hazy; vague; indistinct; faint; fuzzy

8

sleepiness; drowsiness; the sandman; Morpheus

1

to throw; to fling; to heave; to toss

1

puzzle ring; wire puzzle; exercise where students link crossed hands in a circle and try working together and without letting go

1

to continue to hold; to hold on to (for a long period); to maintain; to keep

4

some; several; many; how many; how much; very

1

(staring) piercingly; (looking) hard

1

to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal

1

with all one's strength; with might and main; as hard as one can

2

to strain one's eyes; to look closely; to stare at

2

inhabiting; living

1

distance; range

1

vague recollection; faint memory

1

atlas

1

to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.); to cull; to run on a curtailed schedule; to cut down; to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)

2

lower part; foot; lower direction; left part of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage right (actor's POV)

1

old age

1

to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over

1

essential; substantial; substantive; intrinsic

1

low intelligence; low IQ; feeble-mindedness; unintelligent person; person with a low IQ

2

what is it?

2

huge mound; heap; pile

1

first and last (time, chance, etc.); (the) only

3

blanket

1

to jump up to one's feet

1

toilet; lavatory; powder room

5

to be bad for health; to affect one's health

1

fast (walking); quick; brisk; quick (passing of time); rapid; swift

1

large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)

1

collection of books; (personal) library

3

general; popular; common; typical

1

proper; respectable; decent; honest

1

pressure; oppression; suppression

2

charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage

1