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masterpiece; best work; amusing blunder; funny mistake; boner

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to call dibs; to establish a claim; (lit.) to spit on (thus preventing others from taking it)

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stray cat; alley cat

1

immorality; injustice; adultery; infidelity; (arch.) murdering one's teacher or a government official

2

(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking

5

dripping wet; soaked; drenched

1

to curry favour (with); to play up (to); to cozy up (to); to butter up

2

trespasser

1

to do for (someone); to take in; to deceive; to hoodwink

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to pierce; to penetrate; to sting (wound or sensitive area, etc.); to smart; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice)

3

sense of equilibrium; sense of balance

1

figure; shape; graphic

1

cylindrical

1

ideal situation; ideal world; perfect world; utopia

1

that is; namely; i.e.

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parallelism; running parallel (to, with); running concurrently; occurring at the same time; not reaching an agreement (e.g. of a debate)

1

to pretend; to feign

3

meandering; snaking; zigzagging

3

feel sick; feel unwell

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intentional; deliberate; contrived; artificial

1

more; much more; step; rung; paragraph; passage

2

contortion; distortion; warp; kink (in one's character); twist

2

by itself; automatically; naturally

1

to cook (e.g. rice)

5

space (room, area, outer space)

4

house; building

2

development; exploitation

1

to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to

5

vexing; irritating; impatient

1

exactly; perfectly

5

in public; in company

1

year end

3

plot; intrigue; scheme; conspiracy; agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act

1

gold rush

2

to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please

3

to dig out; to pick up

1

mine (ore)

1

European countries; European nations

1

cart-horse; work-horse; doing something wholeheartedly; doing with one's undivided attention

1

to put someone to work; to make someone work

1

safe; strongbox; cashbox; depository; cash office; treasury

1

muzzling (a person); preventing (a person) from revealing something; silencing (a person); murdering (a person) to prevent them from revealing something

2

favorite child; favourite child; darling; favorite; star

1

inexhaustible supply

2

presentation (of documents); submission (of an application, report, etc.); production (e.g. of evidence); introduction (e.g. of a bill); filing; turning in

1

careful; elaborate; scrupulous

1

beginning of the year; early in the New Year

1

sudden death

1

funeral service

2

certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts

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