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to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish

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cognac

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boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad

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Scotch; Scotch whisky; Scotch tweed

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approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction

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year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

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history

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curtain; bunting; act (in play)

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sentence-ending particle expressing doubt

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first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole

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to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square

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appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style

3

deadline; closing; cofferdam; closed (door, window, etc.)

3

way of saying (something); way of putting it; wording; phrasing; language; expression

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advance notice; previous note; preliminary announcement; trailer (film, TV); preview

1

to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress

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at once; immediately; right now

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to apologize; to apologise

2

both; both sides; both parties

1

noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

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to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)

2

unthinkable; unimaginable; terrible; awful; (arch.) very

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business that exploits its employees (e.g. through unpaid overtime)

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promptly; immediately; quickly; indifferently

1

working adult; full-fledged member of society

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means; is; as for

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stress

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to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up

1

here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...

3

pardon; forgiveness; forbearance

1

control (of a machine, device, etc.); control (over an opponent, one's emotions, etc.); governing; management

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difficult to ...; hard to ...

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to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)

2

taking; taker; last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); emphatic or formal prefix

1

substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange

1

author; writer; novelist; artist

1

to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned

1

one's own child; one's own children

1

just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)

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relationship of mutual trust; fiduciary relation

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for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; first time; (one's) first

3

to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to

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to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge

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if is not; if are not

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to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in

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to disappear; to vanish; (arch.) to die

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somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of

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coat; coating

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inside pocket

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food

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