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to act timid (about doing); to show diffidence; to feel ashamed; to feel guilty

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to resort to violence; to perform a drastic act

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(dead) body; corpse; carcass; remains

2

bloody; gory; covered in copious amounts of blood; desperate; frantic

2

to keep in pace with; to keep up with; to follow (someone's thought); to understand

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zenith; vertex

4

lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)

6

guild

2

eyewitness report; eyewitness information

3

to torment; to torture; to harass

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independence; autonomy; self-reliance

2

dropping out of school; withdrawing from school; expulsion from school; dismissal; leaving school (university, etc.) after completing a course

2

everybody; every last one of them; all

2

to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work

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preferential

1

series of battles; successive battles

1

grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude

4

such

2

to show appreciation for (efforts, esp. by someone of equal or lower status); to thank for; to reward for

1

advice; counsel; suggestion; tip; hint

5

to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up

1

supporter (e.g. wrist supporter); athletic supporter; jockstrap; supporter (esp. of soccer); backer

1

dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp

11

excavation; digging

2

trench; dugout

3

to lead; to take the lead (in doing something); to precede; to go before; to die before (esp. one's spouse, parents, etc.); to be a prerequisite

1

to go too far; to go past; to go to extremes; to overdo it

1

reproachful; hateful; bitter

2

demotion; relegation; reduction in rank; degradation; downward move

1

enemy side

2

declaration; profession

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to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)

2

pasturing; letting (an animal) run loose; letting (someone) do as they please; leaving (something) to take its own course; letting (an issue) go unchecked

1

to fire from a job

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to be exhausted; to be tired out

2

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

1

(public) peace; stability; tranquillity

2

guardian

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to go through a bitter experience; to get into trouble; to get hurt; to feel pain

1

successfully; fairly; artfully; nicely; thoroughly

2

chicken; coward; scaredy-cat; chicken

2

scabbard; sheath; cap (on pen, brush, etc.); case; margin (between two prices); spread

2

unable to compete with; not able to make a dent in (e.g. a problem); not able to get a solid hit in (e.g. in a fight); hard to chew

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lucky; fortunate

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till just now

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pregnancy; conception; gestation

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taking up a new post

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touching (somebody)

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pleasantly smiling

2

modus operandi; criminal technique; trick

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