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simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light

17

the world; society; sphere; circle; world-renowned; world-famous

8

prominent; leading; foremost; distinguished

1

enterprise; business; company; corporation

11

assembly; aggregation

1

top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat

3

front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)

2

rare

1

goes without saying; needless to say; obvious

2

mass communication; mass media

1

influence; clout; leverage

1

remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted

1

reins; bridle; control; the reins (on)

2

tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well

7

while; even though; despite

21

duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus

5

whereabouts; place where one is; position; location

2

ingenious; skillful; clever; deft

2

dispersion; breakup; variance; dispersion

1

downtown

2

to walk

5

second-rate; inferior

1

to make noise; to make racket; to rustle; to swoosh; to make merry; to clamor; to clamour

2

third-rate; third-class

1

one's cherished opinion; pet theory

1

for example; for instance; e.g.

11

first-class; top grade; characteristic; peculiar; school (e.g. of a performance art); one flag

1

regarding oneself (as); fancying oneself (as); seeing oneself (as); considering oneself (to be); pretension

1

always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively

7

eyes and ears; seeing and hearing; one's attention; one's interest

1

to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

2

purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not

9

further; above; anymore

1

accompanying; travelling together; traveling together; same bank

3

certain; one; (arch.) I; (arch.) me

1

to mutter; to murmur; to grumble; to tweet (Twitter)

2

tool (esp. software, etc.); tour (e.g. Tour de France)

1

to drain; to pour; to wash away; to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to cruise (e.g. taxi); to float

4

photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie

1

gossip; government OSI procurement; GOSIP

1

magazine

1

to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded

1

surroundings; environs; circumference

2

ordinary person; member of the general public; non-celebrity

1

carefree; buoyant; lighthearted; ease

2

don't feel like doing; can't bring oneself to do; can't face

1

aura

1

surely; certainly

11

pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely

1

moustache; beard; whiskers (on a cat, etc.); feelers (on an insect, etc.); shadow (on a candlestick chart)

1