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to be quiet (due to lack of activity); to be in a slump (of a business)

2

means; is; as for

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economic slump; hard times; poor (business); dull; gloomy; cheerless

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to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)

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to point upward; to look upward; to improve

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to lean coquettishly against; to snuggle into; to nestle into

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to flatter; to curry favor (with); to fawn (on); to flirt (with; a man); to make eyes (at)

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(being from the) same town (province, birthplace, etc.)

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friendship; friendly relations; connection; relation; intimacy

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beat; palpitation; pulsation; throbbing

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to quicken; to speed up; to gather speed

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self-awareness; awareness (of one's position, abilities, duty, etc.); perceiving (something); taking in (a sensation); self-consciousness

4

south

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remote region; outlying district; border district; frontier

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to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)

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family register; census

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biological child; one's own child

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foster father; adoptive father

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patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha); patron; master

4

as much as one wants; as many as one wants; all that one wishes for

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to crush to death; to press to death; to squeeze to death; to suppress (a laugh, one's anger, etc.); to stifle; to subdue (one's voice)

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only; just; (ever) since; after; continuously; remaining (in a particular state)

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adoptive parents

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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)

2

being startled; getting a shock

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or; or else

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to sell at a loss; to sell cheaply; to sell off; to dispose (of)

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serious; not joking; straight; (arch.) cannot; (arch.) should not; (arch.) will not

2

bite (in fishing)

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to move back; to draw back; to lessen; to subside; to resign; to retire

2

to do as one likes

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bottom; buttocks; bidet function (for anal cleansing)

3

not entirely wrong but not entirely right; so-so; average

2

failure (of a person); letdown; washout; idiot; fool; moron

1

weak ending; tapering; anticlimax; tame ending

1

to catch (someone's words); to make out; to follow; to ask about (a situation, circumstances, etc.); to inquire

1

degree; amount; grade; standard; of the order of (following a number); about

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inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)

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symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); certain; unnamed; undisclosed

2

easy; simple; there's no way that ...

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unexpectedly; unusually; considering all that

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to obtain; to get; to procure; to win; to secure

2

anything and everything; just about everything

1

proposal; proposition; suggestion

2

taking over (another's debt, work); shouldering someone else's burden; subrogation

2

to lend; to loan; to let out on hire

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repayment; reimbursement; refund; redemption

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to be brought forward (e.g. by three hours); to be moved up; to be hasty; to be rash; to quicken; to speed up

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to chew thoroughly; to bite (e.g. one's lip); to reflect upon; to digest

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to accept; to receive; to agree

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