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to leave to take its own course; to let a matter take care of itself

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righteye flounder (any fish of family Pleuronectidae)

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vegetables or fish boiled in soy sauce

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behavior; behaviour; conduct; entertainment; treat; feast

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to be to the point; to hit the mark; to be relevant

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to inquire (about); to enquire; to ask; to interrogate; to question intensely; to grill (someone about something)

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squashed; crushed

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to get goosebumps; to have gooseflesh

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to be muffled; to be mumbled; to be muttered

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fire; conflagration

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fire engine; fire truck

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arson; setting fire

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worst; worst-case (scenario)

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orange (colour, color)

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scene of a fire

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curious onlookers; rubbernecks

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to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue

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to shout; to cry (out); to yell; to scream; to clamour

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to coil itself (e.g. a snake); to loaf around

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stiff and slackless; tense without any looseness; cling tightly; pulled or stretched as far as possible; creaking of a door or oar

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to blaze; to burn brightly

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to cast a shadow

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to come and go; to go back and forth

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bucket brigade

3

extinguishing a fire; fire fighting

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to dishevel (hair)

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soot

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spread of fire

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to talk of one's dreams (esp. unrealistic, far-fetched ones); to dream out loud

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to set fire (to)

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to adhere to; to stick to; to cling to

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to be burned down

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carbonization; carbonisation

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to hang (hold) back; to hold off; to refrain; to jot down a note

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boat for transporting mud; boat made from mud (in folktales); (fig.) sinking ship

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to impose; to visit upon; to inflict

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barking up the wrong tree; calling at the wrong house

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emotion; affect

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to put out; to extinguish

2

destruction by fire; losing in a fire; being burnt down

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to sob; to never stop crying; to cry on and on

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to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away

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to have something (likely) come to mind; to be reminded of something; to understand a point

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inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive

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urban legend

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(an actor) conveying qualities of a character without gestures or speech; implied acting; implicitly asserting one's will (e.g. by sheer force of personality); performance using one's stomach (e.g. by drawing a face on it and animating it using one's abdominal muscles); acrobatics performed on a laid-out person's belly

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to turn up (of evidence, etc.); to become known; to be arrested; to be caught (of a criminal); to be moved to a higher position (of a body part); to be raised (e.g. of a hand to ask a question)

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to tell (someone) to ...

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skull; cranium

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to ask (about); to inquire; to enquire; to question; to make sure of

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