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perfectly fitting phrase

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strength; intensity; strong (e.g. glasses); powerful (e.g. lens); intense (e.g. fear)

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blunt; curt; brusque

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independence; self-reliance

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to be frowned on; to invite frowns of disapproval; to displease (people); to disgust

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to apply (of a rule); to be applicable (of standards, lessons, ideas, etc.); to hold true (e.g. of a description); to fit; to be suitable (e.g. of a word); to meet (requirements)

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(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all

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element; component; factor; element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)

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to continue (for a long time); to occur in succession; to come next (e.g. on TV)

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when it comes to ...; if one were to speak of ...; by ... you mean ...; when you say ... you mean that ...; whenever ...; if it's ... then (without fail)

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really; truly; very; extremely; exceedingly; sincerely

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to praise; to extol; to hail; to laud; to celebrate

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like everyone else; like most people; like an ordinary person; as much as anyone else

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physical

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determination; decision

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mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary

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things; everything

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to have one's breath taken away; to gasp (in surprise, wonder, etc.); to have one's breath catch in one's throat; to gulp

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having to be; must be; should be; ought to be

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people; citizens; subjects; folk

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pennant; gold-brocade flag

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counter for books; volume

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grandfather; male senior-citizen; old man

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coating (esp. lacquering)

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careful; thorough; meticulous; scrupulous

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initial response (e.g. to a crisis); action in the earliest stages; initial shock (of an earthquake); preliminary tremor

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rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative; producing a negative from a positive

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to send in

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tip of a sword; point of a sword

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other people's affairs; someone else's problem

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delicate technique (in sumo, judo, etc.); little trick; subtle maneuver

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to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage

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cause unknown

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on the street; around town; the world; the public

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to impose; to visit upon; to inflict

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to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly

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artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made

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ending; quitting; closing; ending before one had time to do something one wanted or intended to

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opinion; point of view

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to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another

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heart failure

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fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard

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to care for (the sick); to nurse; to attend (someone's deathbed)

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bedroom

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to rise to the surface; to surface; to stand out (e.g. against a background)

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to die; to draw one's last breath; to breathe one's last

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father; dad; husband; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he

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details; particulars; longitude and latitude; warp and weft; warp and woof

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to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to fill with (emotion, enthusiasm, power, etc.); to imbue with; to fill a space (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. of a voice)

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mishearing; (feigned) deafness; homophonic translation of song lyrics for comic effect

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