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affinity

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focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information)

1

to finish up; to complete; to finish off; to get through; to polish off

1

to exercise one's talent; to display one's ability

2

snowflake (cluster of ice crystals)

1

just now; a moment ago; this very minute

1

blast furnace

1

banana

1

nail; spike; tack; rivet; brad; (pachinko) pin

1

to play a leading role; to play a central part

1

below freezing

1

frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair

1

something new (of poor quality)

1

efficacy; benefit; efficiency; effect; result; success

2

high temperature

1

metal fatigue

3

making doubly sure; points scored for good measure; insurance run (in baseball)

2

mass of rock; rock lump; block

2

to shrink back; to wince; to flinch; to recoil

4

left foot; left leg

2

femoral region; thigh area

2

practical use; utility

2

improvement; reform

3

to step on (a nail); to run (a nail) through one's foot; to put one's foot through (the floor)

1

resentment; indignation; anger

4

sphere; globe; ball; sphere; counter for pitches

5

teleportation

4

flour; meal; powder; heroin

2

sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination

1

spore

1

rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse; litter

3

burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse; washout; rupture

1

to break into fragments; to go to pieces

1

(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently

1

soon; before long; in the near future

2

near; close by; within reach; familiar

4

Word of God; God's Word; sword of the Spirit; Logos (i.e. the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ)

2

opaque; obscure; opacity; obscurity; unclear; unpredictable

3

same family (race, tribe)

1

to show one's affection; to express one's love

1

carrying (an infant, etc.) horizontally in one's arms; cradling; holding under one's arm

2

shadow; tail; following

4

being unfamiliar with a locality; not knowing one's way around; (lit.) not knowing one's right hand from the left; being clueless

2

boiling water

6

to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

2

item; heading; category; headword (in a dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.); entry

6

to boil; to be boiling hot; to be on a rolling boil

1

the cauldron of Hell (in which sinners are boiled)

2

women's bath; women's section in a public bath

3

the same as always; day after day

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