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front-facing; forward-looking; positive; constructive

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kissing

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to stir; to move

1

bold; daring; audacious

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habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle

1

not only ... (but also); not just; as well as

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normally being cold but at some prompt suddenly becoming lovestruck; hot-cold personality type

1

to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home

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to tear off; to rip off

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shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon)

1

the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person

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(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption

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anger; wrath

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what I want to say is ...; the fact of the matter is ...; none other than ...

1

to blame; to reproach; to question (a suspect); to challenge; to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated

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withering; shrivelling; shrinking; atrophy; contraction

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to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt

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elevation (of spirits); raising (of morale); uplift; upsurge

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good humour (humor); good mood

1

dubious; puzzled; suspicious

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to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown; to scowl

1

around the world; throughout the world

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skip (bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot); skipping (over); skip (captain of a curling team); skipper

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to run around; to bustle about

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past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)

1

to place in a row; to line up; to list; to enumerate; to talk a lot of nonsense; to tell a lot of lies

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standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability

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sharing with others what has been given to you; sharing a portion of the profit with others

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to soar; to fly high; to be whirled up; to make merry; to be ecstatic; to be in high spirits

1

to get carried away; to get overly elated; to become over-excited; to get up to speed; to move into gear

1

to get drunk; to become intoxicated; to feel sick (e.g. in a vehicle); to become nauseated; to be elated; to be exalted

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to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned

1

extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd

1

aah!; ooh!; oh no!; oh boy!

1

absent-mindedly; vacantly; idly; in a whisper

1

ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious

1

to retreat; to back off; to draw back; to step back; to shrink away

1

to pour (into); to sprinkle on (from above); to water (e.g. plants); to shed (tears); to concentrate one's energy (strength, attention, etc.) on; to devote to; to flow into (e.g. of a river)

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to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)

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what is it (that); the meaning of something; what something is about

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to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on

3

that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so

3

unnatural; affected; studied; forced

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to begin to run; to start running; to break into a run

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grains of sand

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to be smeared; to be covered

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to take a pinch of something (e.g. salt); to pick up in one's fingers

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expressly; especially; taking the trouble (to do); intentionally; deliberately

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unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful

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hanky-panky; juggling; cheating; deception; smoke and mirrors

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