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anniversary of a person's death

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honestly speaking; in truth; in all honesty; to be frank

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purpose; utility; objective; way to use something

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tedious; boring; being fed up with

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failure; defective article; dead loss; good-for-nothing; worthless person; flop

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new invention (discovery)

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gunpowder; powder

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frog spawn; frogspawn

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incubation; hatching

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fully fledged; full-fledged; proper; competent; qualified; full-grown

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sensible; clever; smart; decent; tasteful

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rather; better

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to get stiff legs (after walking or standing up for a long time)

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truth

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remuneration; recompense; reward; toll

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one's wife, children, and other relations; one's whole family

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quietly; softly; seriously; solemnly; sadly

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one's remaining years; the rest of one's life

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to become famous; to go out into the world; to make one's way in the world; to appear

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shameful; disgraceful; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming; improper

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prudence; judgement; sense; discipline; care; control

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extent of (one's) foolishness; degree of stupidity

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to be disgusted with; to be fed up with; to run out of patience with

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to receive permission; to leave (with someone's permission); to retire; to refuse; to beg off doing

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atom

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to settle down (and deal with something); to concentrate all one's energy (on something); to settle oneself (in a place); to settle down (somewhere); to take a solid stance; to lower one's center of gravity (centre)

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to cling to; to hold on to; to grapple; to set about doing; to begin; to take hold of

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to perceive; to grasp (the situation)

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to have one's hair cut; to cut one's hair

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as soon as possible

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net; netting; web

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to haul in (e.g. rope, net, etc.); to pull in; to attract (e.g. stares)

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electron; electronic

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comet

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to be forward; to be impertinent

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trifling; slight

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mark; sign; symbol; emblem; badge; crest

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point; gist; essentials; knack; trick; the ropes

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À bout de souffle (French film, 1959); Breathless

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antiquity; the previous era

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polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful

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slowly and quietly; smoothly

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natural (ability)

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convulsions (in a child); nervousness; short-temperedness; bug thought to cause children's diseases

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ear

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anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside

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indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive

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rash; eruption (in response to a skin irritant); influence; crazy about; having an affectation concerning all things surrounding something (esp. a language, a culture, etc.)

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damned; cursed; accursed

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I don't care what follows; the future will take care of itself

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