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single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)

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colour printing; color printing

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poster

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public hall; community center; community centre

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daily wages

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good story; heartwarming story; good prospect (e.g. marriage, business)

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first day (e.g. at work, school); day one

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to say previously unspoken thoughts; to start saying; to court someone

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profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing

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thoughtless; reckless; seldom; rare; ordinary; usual

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shift; move; (work) shift; work schedule; gearshift; changing gears

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substance; essence; real (in economics, vs. nominal, e.g. real interest rate); substantive; substantial

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a period of two days

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earnings from a part-time job

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look like; sound like; savor of; smack of

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pangs of conscience

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other people; others

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to take by deception; to defraud someone of; to swindle someone out of; to cheat someone out of

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here and there; in places

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dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation; dramatization; embellishment; exaggeration

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taking on a life of its own (of a rumour, etc.); walking by oneself; talking a walk by oneself; walking unaided; being able to walk without help; standing on one's own feet

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within the school

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uncomfortable; ill at ease; not feel at home

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nervous; highly strung; sensitive; fussy; worried about petty things

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ten-odd; a dozen or so

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to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)

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stinginess; miserliness; shabby; cheap; petty; narrow-minded

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to dodge (e.g. a question); to evade; to sidestep; to give (someone) the slip

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compact car

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driver's seat (in a car)

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real intention; motive; true opinion; what one really thinks

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lifeboat; friend in need; helping hand; timely help

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somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why

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boundary; border; limit; bounds; frontier

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appropriate (e.g. authorities); concerned; relevant; said; aforementioned; competent

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duty; role; function

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presence; sitting with; being with

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early afternoon

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funeral; burial; condolence

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cotton gloves; working gloves

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attentive; cautious; careful; watchful

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suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly

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digital versatile disc; DVD

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physical work; manual labour (labor)

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Boston bag; overnight bag; traveling bag (travelling)

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unused

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tote bag

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kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer

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hardcover; hardback

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comic book

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