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advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful

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easy to deal with; tractable; manageable

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steadily

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to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself

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outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world

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the other day; some time ago; recently

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to collect; to gather; to compile; to arrange; to settle

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one large ...; a great ...

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group; mass

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sushi; range of dishes made with vinegared rice combined with fish, vegetables, egg, etc.

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postwar period; period after Second World War

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interest; rights; concession

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if one is unlucky; if one is careless

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putting off; postponing

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to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)

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day after day; every day

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to spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail

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(religious) prophecy

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evening; evening (of a special event); last night; yesterday evening

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not only ... (but also); not merely; as well as; furthermore; besides; moreover

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without a moment's delay; at once; immediately; instantly; promptly; without hesitation

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odds and ends; all; every

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what to do

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to bewilder; to perplex; to puzzle; to tempt; to seduce

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answer; solution

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ultramarine colour (color)

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one hand

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cheerfully; joyously; joyfully; happily; lightheartedly; excitedly

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return; welcome home

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longed-for; anxiously awaited

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to write down

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revising (a manuscript); rewriting; revised manuscript

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it's better to; it's best to; it's safest to; you can't go wrong with; it doesn't hurt (to be young, beautiful, have money, etc.)

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unbearable; intolerable; unendurable

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to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

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to be worried; to be troubled

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show; display; pretensions; pose; posture

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visitor; caller

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to be surprised; to be amazed; to be frightened; surprise (e.g. surprise party)

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staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock)

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nagging; faultfinding; carping; captious

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to see to it that ...; to make sure that ...; to try to ...; to make an effort to ...

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inside and outside the country; domestic and foreign

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new; fresh; novel

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one by one; in detail; minutely

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manners; courtesy; etiquette

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just past noon; afternoon

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messenger; envoy; emissary

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to stand (something) up; to put upright; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to let out; to raise (a cloud of dust, smoke, etc.)

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custom; general rule; convention; usually; generally; normally

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