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sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered

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author (usu. of a particular book); writer

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empty air; sky; shunyata; emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness

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apathy; lassitude; lethargy; languor

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business

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intervention

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growth period; growing season

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everywhere; at every turn

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to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)

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to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

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to break the ice; to broach a subject; to bring up a topic

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to buy as a gift

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interview; audience; meeting; (viewing) party

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to push away; to thrust aside; to detach oneself from; to keep away from; to act coldly; to do without emotion

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quarrel; dispute

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all that one has; all that there is; the whole

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pressure

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not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it

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to squash; to crush; to flatten

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to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)

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brutal (atmosphere, society, etc.); savage; fierce; violent; bloodthirsty; stark

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to bud; to sprout

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longish; moderately long; somewhat long; fairly long

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tired feeling; feeling of exhaustion; sense of fatigue; fatigability

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sense of fulfillment; sense of completeness; sense of accomplishment; sense of contentment

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left foot; left leg

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thumb; pollex

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gastrocnemius muscle

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rate; ratio; comparatively; contrary to expectations

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hammer throw (track and field)

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inconstant; unprincipled

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butt of a joke; punchline

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to backfire; to produce a result opposite to what was expected or intended

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obstacle; hindrance; impediment; difficulty

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quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality

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bad influence; negative influence

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frequent; incessant

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all the more; still more

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hypnotism

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to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet

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youthful indiscretion; youthful enthusiasm; youthful excess

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(sexual) foreplay

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something; nothing (with neg. verb)

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to rot; to decay; to die in obscurity; to be forgotten with time

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shameful; disgraceful; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming; improper

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no-good man; (male) loser

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manufacturing equipment; production machine; maker

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several day period

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long-term

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to make plans

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