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simple; easy

1

to give a reason

3

sign; signal; cue

4

light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous

2

remarks; comments; way of talking; speaking style; excuse; topic (of conversation)

3

finally; in the end; on top of all that

1

outcast; odd man out; pariah

1

forced; compulsory

6

extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out

2

to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was

3

avid reader; bookworm

3

is there anything else?

2

about this time

4

mixture of fact and fiction; half-truth

1

refreshment; something refreshing; welcome relief; tonic; refreshing medicine

1

harmonious; peaceful; congenial; luxuriant (vegetation)

1

safe; vault; storage cabinet

2

cache; place to hide something

2

top secret

1

muzzling (a person); preventing (a person) from revealing something; silencing (a person); murdering (a person) to prevent them from revealing something

3

hungry; starving

1

feel sick; feel unwell

6

impediment; burden; encumbrance; hindrance; drag

1

increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

5

not permitting; not authorizing

1

consideration; taking into account

1

to compare and contrast two alternatives; to weigh the relative merits of A and B; to weigh one's options; to try to have it both ways; to try to sit on two stools

1

staringly; fixedly; unblinkingly

2

to begin to dissolve

1

to be helpful; to be useful

6

expressing emotion; drawing facial expressions

4

(one's) exclusive use; private use; dedicated use; use for a particular purpose; exclusive use (of particular products); using only (e.g. a certain brand)

1

argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise

2

leisure time; idle moment

1

saying "Ah!"; making one say "Ah!"; surprisingly; astonishingly

3

size

5

apron; apron (airport); apron (stage)

2

numeral; figure; digit; numeric character

2

astonished; shocked; amazed; astounded; aghast

4

soundless; mute

5

to do nothing but; to spend all one's time doing

1

number of words; vocality

2

to memorize; to memorise; to commit to memory; to learn by heart; to bear in mind; to remember

16

compromise; concession

2

to be of no concern to one; to be nothing to do with one

2

to one's heart's content or satisfaction

3

to be cloying; to be sick and tired with; to be disgusted with; to stink

2

hysterical; hysteric

1

to hurl abuse (at); to use abusive language

1

light eating; spare diet; not eating much

1