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ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious

2

symbolic

1

to cause someone to worry

1

playing to the gallery; grandstanding; ad hoc; haphazard; dress rehearsal

1

dealing with; coping with

2

to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create

3

something heard for the first time; hearing something for the first time

2

very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly

1

behind closed doors; behind-the-scenes; (under the veil of) secrecy

1

inevitable; necessary; foregone; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)

1

usefulness

1

official announcement; proclamation

1

to topple over; to be overturned; to capsize; to be overruled; to be reversed; to be discredited

1

study; research; investigation

20

victim; injured party; sufferer

4

condition; assumption; intention; intent; premise (in logic)

1

anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever

1

easy; simple; light

1

coming and going; keeping in touch; visiting each other; street traffic; highway

2

risky

1

fetus; foetus; embryo; unborn child

1

to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)

1

to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations

3

to want something desperately; to want something (so badly one can taste it)

1

subject of research

1

variables; uncertain elements; uncertainties; imponderables

1

where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes

1

if one is unlucky; if one is careless

1

whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life

1

to cause harm (to)

1

living thing; organism; creature; biology

1

poisonous; toxic

1

material; substance; matter

1

composition; construction; formation; makeup; structure; organization

1

to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to show someone (into a room)

1

anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever

1

political strength

1

huge; big; gargantuan

2

to the utmost; to the best of one's ability

1

direct contact

1

groping (for); fumbling around (for); searching (for an answer, solution, etc.); trying to find

1

title (e.g. Doctor, Professor, Lord); job title; position (in a company); degree; status; rank

1

pronoun; synonym; classic example; pattern

1

actual existence; real existence; existing in real life

1

threat; menace

1

to read aloud to another

1

epic; heroic tale

1

villain; baddie; the villain's part

1

losing everything; coming to nothing; having lost the interest and the principal

1

direct

1