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eyeball; special feature; centerpiece; special program; loss leader; sunny-side up fried egg

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to gouge out; to excavate; to hollow; to bore; to drill; to carve (e.g. pumpkin)

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drool

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to trickle down

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to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice

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sincere; earnest; serious

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greedy; avaricious; rapacious; insatiable

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impatience; uneasiness; irritation; fretfulness

1

to disappear; to vanish; to go; to leave; to die

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event; phenomenon; matter

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emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness

1

all that one has; all that there is; the whole

1

silver (color, colour)

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fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them

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loudly (flinging open a door); with a clatter; with a crash (e.g. of a falling structure); completely (change); utterly; louvre window (door, vent, etc.)

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way of calling

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solemn (ceremony, atmosphere, etc.); austere; grave; majestic; dignified; stately

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one-person show; one-woman show; one-man show; performing solo; monodrama

1

to bend loosely back and forth; to wriggle; to be crooked

1

poison fang; sinister ways; crooked means; clutches

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to give off sparks; to spark; to scintillate; to have a heated argument; to combat; to do something fiercely

1

rush; charge

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poisonous; venomous; hateful; detestable; gaudy; garish

1

frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed

1

(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier

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trick that may deceive a child; transparent ploy; mere child's play; kid stuff; puerile trick

2

to delay; to put off; to procrastinate

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sound of something making firm contact with a flat surface

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to ask; to enquire; to inquire; to search; to look for; to look into

1

several minutes; a few minutes

3

to stay calm; to keep cool

1

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

1

becoming irritated (suddenly); getting annoyed

1

to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose

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point-blank range

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swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man

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to clear up; to become cloudless; to be refreshed

1

sky-blue

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glass; pane

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transcendence; transcendency; transcendental; to transcend; to rise above

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whatever

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transparency; degree of clearness

1

after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means

1

pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship

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to grant (a request); to accept; to hear (a prayer); to comply with (a demand)

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it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...

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waste of time

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distant view; looking from a distance; good long distance vision; farsightedness

1

(person who has the) hands of God; master; virtuoso

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to be jealous of; to envy; to begrudge

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