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Newsagent

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A person or shop that sells newsapaper, magazines, and often paperback books.

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Exploit

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To use someone or something unfairly for your own advantage.

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Adopt

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To claim ownership of something or establish guardianship of someone

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Tends to

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To focus or apply one’s attention to someone or something; to take care of someone or something

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Posture and gestures

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To present or portray oneself falsely as a different person or type of person/ an action or a decision that is so small or inconsequential as to be only symbolic

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A serious insult

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Speak or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse.

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Customs

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A usage or practice common to many or to a particular place or class or habitual with and individual.

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Focusing on

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Pay particular attention to

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Profitable

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Affording profits; yielding advantageous returns or results. Profitability

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Look down or away

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To consider that person to be inferior or unimportant, usually when this is not true./
Avoiding someone or something: maintaining a physical distance from someone or something.

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Distracted

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To render one unable to focus

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Common factors

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Similarities

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Tense up

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Very nervous and worried and unable to relax because of something that is going to happen

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Appropriately

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In a way that is suitable or right for a particular situation or occasion.

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Sensitivity

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The quality or state of being sensitive

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Invading

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To enter for conquest or plunder - trespass