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preface; introduction; preamble

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effective; successful

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lifeboat; friend in need; helping hand; timely help

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cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga

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with a start; in surprise; suddenly (realize, remember, etc.); all of a sudden; puffing (air); with a puff

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(an actor) conveying qualities of a character without gestures or speech; implied acting; implicitly asserting one's will (e.g. by sheer force of personality); performance using one's stomach (e.g. by drawing a face on it and animating it using one's abdominal muscles); acrobatics performed on a laid-out person's belly

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start; beginning

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expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture

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to one's heart's content; as much as one wants; as hard as one can; resolution; decisiveness; determination

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goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre

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terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

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beautiful woman; (a) beauty; belle; good-looker

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cough; ahem

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clearing one's throat; cough

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to the end; to the last

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story; tale; legend; plot; storyline

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unfairness; injustice; partiality

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to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly

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elbow

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pentatonic scale

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to poke; to push

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altitude; height; elevation; high-degree; high-grade; advanced

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to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan

1

ball game (e.g. baseball, tennis, soccer)

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out (of a ball; in tennis, etc.); outside the line; out; putout; outer; external; exit

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point (of a story, argument, etc.); key point; point; site; point (in scoring); point (in a loyalty program); points

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listen!; you see; mind you; remember

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easy-to-understand

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close examination; careful investigation; investigation of a crime; inquiry into someone's guilt; winner (of the most rounds, i.e. a full game); (arch.) reciting and appreciating traditional poetry

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prediction; estimation

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difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

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term; terminology; wording; choice of words; phraseology

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explanation; commentary; exposition; elucidation

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to entice; to tempt; to invite someone to join in

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admiration; being impressed; admirable; praiseworthy; astonishment; being appalled

1

indiscriminate reading; unsystematic reading; desultory reading; reading at random

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vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology

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abundant; plentiful; rich; ample

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assistance (in a fight); help; aid; helper; supporter

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to feel around for; to fumble for; to investigate; to probe into; to explore (parts unknown); to enjoy (natural beauty)

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as expected; as predicted

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to confess; to speak out; to disclose; to tell

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period (e.g. class)

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recess; break time; break between classes; free period; recess time; recreation hour

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to bring someone along

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no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about

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and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not

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establishment; creation; posing (a problem); options setting; preference settings; configuration

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to accept (e.g. an explanation); to be satisfied (with); to assent (to)

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what

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