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changing schools

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gossip

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lasting long; continuation; keeping at (something); sticking to (something)

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group (usu. of people)

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to kill time

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transfer student; student changing schools

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companions; friends; comrades; mates; partners

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just the other day; quite recently

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closing a school (for the day); closing a school (permanently); shutting down a school

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bell signalling that work, class, etc. will formally begin shortly; first bell; warning bell

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(sports) ground; (playing) field; playground; stadium

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school gate

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hearth; fireplace; furnace; kiln; young girl; childlike young woman

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to begin making a sound (ringing, singing, crying, etc.)

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qualifications; requirements; capabilities

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nose piercing; nose ring

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famous product; special product; speciality; specialty

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loudly (wailing, making a noise, etc.)

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loss; waste (e.g. of time); feeling of loss; Los Angeles; L.A.

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Dodger Stadium

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nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion

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manner; style

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to fly about; to jump about; to bustle about

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senility; senile decay; infirmity (through age)

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to contemplate; to ponder; to think over; to turn over in one's mind; to reflect; to muse

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to get torn; to tear; to rip; to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.); to break down; to collapse

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boundary; border; limit; bounds; frontier

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encroachment; invasion; erosion (e.g. of market share, rights); erosion; corrosion

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return; coming back; second coming (e.g. of Christ); second advent; reincarnation

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the present age; these days; (present) head of the family

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there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)

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Los Angeles

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a little; for a moment; a short while; just a minute

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to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse

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to lend an ear (to); to hear out; to listen to

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Dodgers (e.g. Los Angeles Dodgers)

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play-off; playoff

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participation (in a tournament, match, race, etc.); entry; appearance (on the stage, television, etc.); exiting (a venue, train station, etc.); exit; being dispatched (of an ambulance, fire engine, etc.)

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aid; assistance; help; cheering; rooting (for); support

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excuse; explanation

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heavy metal

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Mecca; Makkah; mecca; centre for some field or activity (center)

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and then; and so; and; so then

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schoolyard; school playground; school grounds; campus

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to rendezvous; to meet at a prearranged place and time; to arrange to meet

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foreign car; imported car; paddle wheel

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manner; demeanour; demeanor; bearing

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half the number; half (of an amount); haploid (organism, cell, etc.); haplont

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white person; Caucasian; (arch.) beginner; (arch.) amateur; (arch.) unlicensed prostitute

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black person; (arch.) woman in the nightlife business; (arch.) demimondaine; (arch.) geisha and prostitutes

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