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pouring one's energy into; focusing one's efforts on; concentrating on; committing oneself to

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explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend

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(within a) territory; domains

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nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all

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bookshelf

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at present; now

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gap

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to be evident; to be obvious; to understand completely

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one's financial standing

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to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty

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to throb; to beat fast

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beat; palpitation; pulsation; throbbing

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intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy

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throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

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to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply

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cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky

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(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front

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to collide; to clash

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to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)

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to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport

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correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with

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external; foreign (e.g. relations); public (e.g. image)

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this morning

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trick; act

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seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to

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to collect one's thoughts; to gather one's thoughts; to put one's ideas in order

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from the beginning

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to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate

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that road (path, street, way, etc.); that line (of business); that profession; love affairs; romance

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to make a mistake (in); to commit an error; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to mislead; to misguide

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only; nothing but

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being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net

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it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...

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so-so; passable; now, now; my, my

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means; method

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book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter

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to be in a tizzy; to be in a frenzy; to have one's eyes light up; to have a different look in one's eyes

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male; manly; brave; larger (of the two); greater; (arch.) man

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angry face (countenance)

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children are a bond between husband and wife; children hold marriages together

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to become pregnant

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to feel compassion towards; to be swayed by emotion; to be moved by

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feelings; emotion; compassion; sympathy; passion; affection

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to fetter; to shackle; to bind

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birth; creation; formation

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to join forces; to cooperate

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to be to the point; to be pertinent

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good idea

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to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)

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innocent (esp. of a girl); naive; virgin; maiden; young striped mullet

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