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being worth doing

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cupboard; locker; closet; wardrobe; cabinet

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mixture; jumble; cord made by entwining threads of various colours

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reproachful; hateful; bitter

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amusement; fun; brief entertainment

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demanding; difficult; strict

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fair-skinned; light-complexioned

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good outward appearance; looking nice; being attractive; making a fine show

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feel; touch

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concrete example

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(it was) not until; (it was) only when

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template

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approval

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moisture

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reddish tinge; tinge of red; slight redness; reddishness; blush

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to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest

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to frown; to squint

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head; brains; intelligence

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to jump on someone's (verbal) mistake; to trip someone up; to find fault with something someone says

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(a) step forward

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with a pitter-patter; choked up (with emotion); heart-wringing; momentary tightening of one's chest caused by powerful feelings (e.g. parting with a loved one)

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alluring words; endearing words; sugared words; sweet words; honeyed words; flattery

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pre-established harmony (Leibniz theory); harmonie préétablie; (events) proceeding in a predictable fashion; turning out the way everyone expected; convention

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eagerly (waiting); (waiting) impatiently

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reading with pleasure

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and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism

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literary

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girl's feeling; maiden's mind

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(showing) no reaction; non-reaction; straight face

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creative work (e.g. artistic, literary)

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to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse

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very loose; slowly; leisurely

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otherwise; if not; or else

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vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry

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foreshadowing; preparation; precautionary measures

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blunt weapon

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-esque; -like; -ish

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to consider carefully; to deliberate thoroughly; to think over

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age 16 (of a girl); pubescence; age 64 (of a man); breaking of the hymen (during sex); defloration

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to hurt one's reputation; to be ashamed of oneself; to lose one's honour

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eagerly; earnestly; assiduously; diligently; wholeheartedly

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odds and ends; all; every

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to stare at each other; to lock eyes with

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to collapse; to give up; to lose one's nerve; to have one's knees give way

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appearance; expression; manifestation

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to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way

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time; thyme; time out (e.g. in sport)

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to come back; to return; to recur

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post-coital clarity; period after orgasm when a man is free from sexual desire and can think clearly

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edition; version; plate; block; editions of a publication

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