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older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella

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assistance; backing; support; aiding and abetting (a crime); abetment

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punishment; penalty

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mean; contemptible; despicable; dirty; foul; cowardly

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self-responsibility; on one's own responsibility; at one's own risk

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leaving everything up to someone else

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to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither

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to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on

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simply; merely; only; solely

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decline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing

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to grow old

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full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)

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proper; respectable; decent; (arch.) entirely; (arch.) completely; (arch.) wholly

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by all means; no matter what; at any rate

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selection; sorting; culling; screening; triage

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sigh of relief

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settlement; solution; resolution

1

to crush; to squash; to flatten; to quash (a plan, opposition, etc.); to crush; to suppress

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to risk one's life (to do); to put one's life on the line; to step forward (to do); to give one's all

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hazy; misty; foggy; hazy feeling; uncertain feeling; feeling gloomy

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difficult to ... (physically or emotionally); hard to ...

2

exposure; disclosure

1

crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift

1

monetary; financial; pecuniary

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to displease; to offend; to hurt (a person's) feelings

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departure; departing from ...; sent from ...; (a letter, etc.) dated ...; counter for engines (on an aircraft); counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.

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beyond expectation; contrary to expectations; unexpectedly

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strongly hoping or requesting (of something that is difficult to be brought to fruition)

2

sales talk

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to acquire knowledge

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address; destination

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recipient (e.g. of mail); addressee; payee; beneficiary

2

ventilation; communication (within an organisation); openness

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as time goes by; as time went by; with the passage of time; over time

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faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre

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astrophysics

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(not) anyone; (not) a single person; no one; nobody

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value; worth; merit

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heavy-hearted; depressed; dispirited; (feeling) down; feeling reluctant (to do)

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peaceful; tranquil; calm; restful

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sorrow; grief; anguish; anxiety; worry; trouble

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operating together; working together; being linked (to); being tied (to); being connected (with); interlocking

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imitation

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adhesion; conglutination; accretion; collusion; collusive relationship; cozy relationship

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to shake; to jolt; to shake (e.g. the political world); to disturb; to put off a batter (by varying one's type of pitch)

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heavy (feeling, etc.); gloomy (weather, etc.); oppressive (atmosphere, etc.); stifling; strained

2

to die; to pass away

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to (make something) quiver; to shake; to tremble; to vibrate

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common idea; common wisdom; generally accepted idea

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Coleridge

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