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bad-mouthing someone so as to be deliberately overheard; intentionally letting someone hear insults or sarcasm regarding them

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rain cloud

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death; rejection (of a manuscript, etc.); lacking; without

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to be buried; to be covered; to be hidden

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laborer; labourer; blue-collar worker

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some people; a few people; several people

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measuring; measurement

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engineering works; civil engineering; public works

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carrying in (esp. heavy objects, artwork, furniture); bringing in; taking in

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human power; human strength; human effort; human agency

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half the number; haploid

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staying somewhere (overnight) due to circumstances

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to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over

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tragedy; tragic drama; tragic play; tragedy; calamity; disaster

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to swell; to rise; to bulge; to rouse; to get excited

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viewer; (television) audience

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sympathy; empathy; response

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important point; emphasis; iteration mark; colon (punctuation)

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mental anguish

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mass communication; mass media

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to enter into a person's feelings; to guess what somebody feels (using one's intuition)

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all companies; each company

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mutual agreement; understanding; common consent

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stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others; solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory)

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one's relatives by blood and marriage (in blood and law); one's kith and kin

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thread; yarn; string

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to haul in (hand over hand); to pull in; to draw in; to trace (history, threads of a story, etc.); to retrace (e.g. memories); to go over

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to feel refreshed; to feel more cheerful; to feel better

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bundle; pack; bunch

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lost articles

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to be twisted; to be wrapped; to be distorted

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to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except

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lava

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object; body; solid

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in the earth; in the ground; underground

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cotton gloves; working gloves

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snappingly; with a snap

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having not the slightest idea

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brink; outer edge

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melting; fusion

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pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously

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paint

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to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear

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iron pole

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handrail; railing; banister

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in all

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to melt into; to dissolve into; to merge into; to blend into (surroundings); to fit in; to adapt to

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landslide

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induced explosion; secondary explosion

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going up in flames; destruction by fire (esp. of a large building); stirring up a storm of criticism online (of an article, tweet, statement, etc.); becoming the target of an Internet pitchfork mob

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