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Outline

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The line of the edge

Контур

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Fulfillment

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Execution, implementation, realization

Выполнение

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Nurture

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Raise, bring up

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Secluded

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Quiet, lonely

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Retreat

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Isolation, departure from society

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Crumble

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To destroy, break down

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To recount

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To tell smth to sb

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To wear off

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To fade, to wash, to moderate

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Conviction

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Belief, assurance

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Quaint

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Bizzare, unusual, extraordinary

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Contrived

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Invented, thought up

Придуманный, надуманный

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Struggle

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Fight, battle

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Inscrutable

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Incomprehensible

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Respite

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A break, a delay

Передышка

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To defy

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To challenge, to ignore, to neglect

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Milestone

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The stone which is set up beside the road to mark the distance in miles to a particular place

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Reluctant

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Forced, resistant

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Glimpse

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Flash or spark which appears in your mind when you crack some riddle

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Insight

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The capacity to gain the accurate and deep intuitive understanding of smth

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Obtuse

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Stupid

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Sophisticated

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Complex, complicated

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Musing

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Thought, reflection

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Courage

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Bravery

Мужество

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Recession

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Decline

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Tough

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Hard, difficult, brutal

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Drastically

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Radically, cardinally

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Backdrop

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Background

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Flaw

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Deficiency, mistake

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Compelling

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Evoking interest, attention or admiration in irresistible way

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Relenting

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Pitless, cruel, brutal

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Angst

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Concern, anxiety, dread, worry, disturbance

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Tear down

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Contradict, disprove, dismant (срывать)

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Supremacy

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Domination, superiority, headship

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Venture

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A risky or daring action

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Obscuring

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Darken, blurred

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Thread

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Clue,

Filament

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Trait

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Feature, peculiarity, characteristic

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Give away

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  1. Reveal smth, betray an
  2. To give smth free of charge
  3. To deliver a woman to her husband at their wedding
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Give back

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  1. To return
  2. To surrender, yield (уступать)
  3. To hand in (вручать)
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Give off

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To emit (выделять, испускать) smell, heat, fumes

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Give out

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  1. To come to an end
  2. To distribute, hand out (раздавать)
  3. To announce
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Give to

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  1. To present with

2. To supply, provide

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Give up

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  1. To stop/abandon an attempt/habit
  2. To surrender (сдаваться, капитулировать), offer oneself as a prisoner
  3. To stop doing or having smth
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Go down with

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To become ill

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Go along

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  1. To proceed
  2. To advance, make progress
    The same meaning as “go on”
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Go back on

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  1. To break a promise or agreement

2. To let down( подвести, разочаровывать), to be disloyal

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Go in for

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  1. To take part in competition

2. To be interested in smth

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Go by

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  1. Pass

2. To let it pass without taking it

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Go into

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  1. To investigate throughly
  2. To join/enter smth
  3. To crash
  4. To start an activity
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Go off

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  1. To explode (bomb)
  2. To ring (alarm)
  3. To be switched off
  4. To go bad (of food)
  5. To stop
  6. To succeed
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Go on

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  1. To continue, CARRY ON
  2. To happen
  3. To make progress
  4. To go ahead
  5. To be turned on
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Go out

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  1. To stop burning, be extinguished
  2. To cease to be fashionable ( opp: COME IN)
  3. To mix socially
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Go for

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  1. Attack
  2. To apply for (for a job)
  3. To support
  4. To aim at smth
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Go down

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  1. To be reduced
  2. To set ( about sun and moon)
  3. To sink or drown
  4. To be swallowed
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Go through

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  1. To examine carefully, GO OVER
  2. To discuss in detail
  3. To use up (израсходовать) bout food and money
  4. To be completed successfully (bout deal)
  5. To pass through
  6. To experience, endure( вынести, вытерпеть)
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Go round

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  1. To have enough for everybody to share
  2. To visit, LOOK AROUND
  3. To spread ( bout news or disease)
  4. To circulate GO ABOUT
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Go up

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  1. To rise (in price)

2. To ascend ( восходить)

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Go with

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  1. To match ( совпадать, соответствовать)

2. To be part of

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Go away

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  1. to leave

2. To stop

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Go by

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  1. To pass ( bout time)

2. To let it pass without taking it ( bout chance)

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Go over

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  1. To examine details
  2. To approach ( sb to speak to)
  3. To repeat
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Hold down

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To keep smth at a lower level

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Hold back

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  1. To control (tears, laughter)
  2. To hesitate
  3. To delay
  4. To keep a secret, KEEP BACK
  5. To be reluctant (вынужденный) to act
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Hold off

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  1. To keep a distance

2. To delay doing smth

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Hold on

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  1. To wait (especially on the phone)
  2. To continue despite difficulties
  3. To last
  4. To maintain in a place
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Hold to

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Follow exactly rules and customs

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Hold over

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To postpone PUT OFF

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Hold in

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To restrain, keep under control

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Persist in

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Pleasant

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TO

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Be pleased

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WITH

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Take pleasure

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IN

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Have pleasure

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OF

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Popular

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WITH

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Prevent sb

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FROM verb

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To be proud

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OF

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To have quarrel

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ABOUT SMTH WITH SB

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Recover

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FROM

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Reason

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FOR (as noun)

WITH (as verb)

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Relationship

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BETWEEN (noun)

WITH (sb)

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Remnants

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A small remaining quantity of smth

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Abolish

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To put the end to smth

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Assessment

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Оценка

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Immensely

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Чрезвычайно

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Persist in

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-

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Pleasant

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TO

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Be pleased

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WITH

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Take pleasure

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IN

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Have pleasure

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OF

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Popular

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WITH

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Prevent sb

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FROM verb

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To be proud

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OF

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To have quarrel

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ABOUT SMTH WITH SB

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Recover

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FROM

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Reason

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FOR (as noun)

WITH (as verb)

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Relationship

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BETWEEN (noun)

WITH (sb)

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Remnants

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A small remaining quantity of smth

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Abolish

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To put the end to smth

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Assessment

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Оценка

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Immensely

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Чрезвычайно

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Persist in

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-

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Pleasant

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TO

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Be pleased

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WITH

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Take pleasure

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IN

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Have pleasure

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OF

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Popular

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WITH

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Prevent sb

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FROM verb

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To be proud

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OF

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To have quarrel

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ABOUT SMTH WITH SB

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Recover

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FROM

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Reason

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FOR (as noun)

WITH (as verb)

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Relationship

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BETWEEN (noun)

WITH (sb)

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Remnants

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A small remaining quantity of smth

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Abolish

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To put the end to smth

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Assessment

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Оценка

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Immensely

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Чрезвычайно

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Keep out

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To exclude sb

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