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success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence

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to overstep the mark; to go too far; to overdo it

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document; papers

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distinguished war service; merit of war

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Oh well; yeah; good; OK

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outline; summary; gist; roughly; about; nearly

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anecdote; story; episode

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outside ...; beyond ...; not included in ...

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to lose; to be defeated; to give in (to); to yield; to be inferior (to); to be second (to)

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to lie; to pretend; to feign; to deceive; to trick

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to well (up); to gush out (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to sweat; to feel emotions (e.g. joy, bravery, etc.); to spring up (e.g. an idea, emotions, clouds)

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to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark

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mother

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to kneel (in respect); to genuflect

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authority; power; influence; (an) authority (on); expert

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to sentence; to assign a penalty

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difficult to ...; hard to ...

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sublimation; sublimation (of an impulse); sublimation (i.e. transforming into a purer or nobler form)

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to move (something) to another location; to change the position of; to rearrange; to replace; to exchange; to switch

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being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

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formation; establishment; conclusion (e.g. of a deal); reaching (e.g. an agreement); being valid (of a theory, argument, etc.); holding

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handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission

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to form; to make; to build up (e.g. a fortune); to create; to accomplish; to achieve; to change (into)

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to engrave; to carve out

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unconditional

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being one in body and soul; of one flesh; two hearts beating as one

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to be emotionally moved; to have a lump in one's throat

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you (plural)

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to perceive; to grasp (the situation)

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dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish

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if I (we, etc.) could; if one were to ... then ... (an unpleasant thing would happen)

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medium; media

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splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight

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to drill; to bore; to hit the mark; to get to the heart of (the matter); (arch.) to put on; (arch.) to wear

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that is to say; so that means

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always; usually

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individuality; personality; quirk; idiosyncrasy; character; individual characteristic

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environment; surroundings; circumstances

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to polish; to shine; to burnish; to refine (a skill, etc.); to improve; to hone

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generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual

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weak point; weakness; shortcoming; defect; flaw; sore spot

1

to apply; to adapt

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to divide; to separate; to partition; to punctuate; to mark off (with a comma); to insert pauses (between words or phrases when reading aloud)

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special characteristic; special quality; trait; idiosyncrasy; peculiarity

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in its entirety; whole; wholly

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to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to

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materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis

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both (people); the two of them

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to keep silent

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to accompany; to follow; to keep up with

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