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life or death struggle; mortal combat; struggle to the death

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two great men

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bitterness; bitter taste

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nostalgia; homesickness

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sense of emptiness; empty feeling; feeling of meaninglessness

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blind (devotion, faith, etc.); reckless

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offender; criminal

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atonement; the Atonement (of Jesus Christ)

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bitter-tasting bug

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to chew up

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death in battle

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general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different

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to burn hotly; to burn redly; to lose one's temper; to get mad; to be upset

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blood pressure

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(dying) suddenly; (breaking) brittly; with a snap; softly and swellingly

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(complete) destruction; annihilation; devastation

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as you see; as you can see

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skin and bones

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everywhere; all over; throughout

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nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all

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to meet face-to-face

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vulgar; crude; tacky

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to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to beg; to make a supplication; to see (something or someone of high status)

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to become an adult woman; to come of age; to lose one's virginity (of a woman); to become sexually active

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-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as ...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action

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working without pay; free service; work for nothing

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harassment; pestering

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sight; attraction; spectacle; something worth seeing

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to dance

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heresy; nonconformism; heathenism; paganism

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abolition; elimination; extinction; discontinuation

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being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); responding to kindness with resentment; thinking ill of someone who meant to be kind; unjustified resentment; unreasonable grudge

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bright; intelligent

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unmarried woman; Miss; -ess; -ette

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origin; beginning; start

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four characters; four letters

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finger marks; dirt from the hands

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unconnected; weakly related; alien; having little prospect of marriage

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tangent line; tangential line

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resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness

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work; business; company; study

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far away in the distance; in the far distance

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automatic

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signal

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spinal nerves

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to step on (a nail); to run (a nail) through one's foot; to put one's foot through (the floor)

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saliva; spit; spittle

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to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)

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... all over again (repeating the same failure)

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self-condemnation; self-reproach; self-accusation

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