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to be plucked

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to pluck; to pick; to tear

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fully prepared; all ready

2

way of asking; way of listening; listener

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front and rear; before and after; order; sequence; consequences; context

2

(many) years; long-standing (esp. hatred, grudge); ancient

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if you dislike someone, you will end up hating everything he stands for; (lit.) hate a priest, and you will hate his very vestments

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genocide

2

nostalgia; homesickness

2

the hundredth year; out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope; rare chance; unusually good fortune

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success or failure; outcome; result

2

to fall into someone's hands; to place oneself in someone's power

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weeping; sobbing; softly (crying); with a prolonged dull pain; having a griping pain

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boiling water

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expenses; expenditure; outgoings; outlays; costs

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to hammer out the details; to work out details

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bereaved family; surviving family; family of the deceased

2

(monetary) present to a person in distress; condolence money; gift of money in token of one's sympathy; solatium

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to do wholeheartedly; to put one's heart into something

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(blue-collar) worker; laborer; labourer

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insight; power of observation

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to stare back (at); to glare back

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to lose; to miss (a chance, opportunity); to lose (a loved one); to be bereaved of; to concede (goals, points, etc.)

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doesn't even exist

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quiet; still; calm

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pale; pallid

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large stage; grand stage; the big stage; grand setting

4

disgraceful behavior; disgraceful behaviour; shameful conduct; shameful sight

2

looking pale; looking unwell

4

absence; non-attendance

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earth (color, colour); earthen; ashen; deathly pale

2

to guess; to estimate

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to let (someone) swim; to make (someone) swim; to make (someone) stumble forward; to make stagger; to let (a suspect) roam freely (while monitoring them); to leave at large

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facilitator; programme director; steering committee (chair)

3

schedule; program; programme; agenda

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moving forward (e.g. plans); acceleration (e.g. of payment schedule); front-loading

2

sometimes; occasionally; now and then; from time to time

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generous; soft-hearted; having a good personality

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in unison; as one; united

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adultery; illicit intercourse; secret communication (e.g. with the enemy)

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staying behind; remaining; residual

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anti-war

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indecisive; irresolute; shilly-shally; vacillating

2

thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words

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to take (someone) to one place after another (forcibly); to drag (someone) around

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battle flag; standard; (regimental) colours; colors; ensign

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to strangle to death

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common front; united front

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secret agreement

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comparing and adjusting; reconciling; lapping; precision surface finishing; margination

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