to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services
reliable; trustworthy; hopeful; promising
role; assignment; position (of responsibility); post; part (in a play, film, etc.); role
to receive permission; to leave (with someone's permission); to retire; to refuse; to beg off doing
indiscrete; imprudent; unscrupulous
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
adaptation (from); rebaking
locked-room murder (e.g. in murder mystery fiction)
classifying in patterns; typification
reading matter; reading material
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
popular use; circulation; to pass as; to pass for
classic (work, esp. book); the classics
(not) enough; (in)sufficiently; (un)satisfactorily
thin veneer; hasty preparation; knowledge or skill learned as a stopgap; re-tempering a dull sword (so that it looks as if it's sharp, but is actually unusable)
enthusiast; mania; enthusiasm
idleness; lack of application; lazy study habits
clamour; clamor; uproar; tumult; furore; furor
like this; this sort; this way
young person; inexperienced person; novice
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after
however; having said that; but
to put on airs; to act big; to throw one's weight about; to be overbearing; to be domineering; to be bossy
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