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Huge change

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Transformation

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To bleed inside

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Haemarrhage

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With lot of energy

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Manic

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Front and up part of the head

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Forehead

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To make sculpture by adding elements

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Sculpt

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Make sculpture by removing material

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Carve

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There is no clear separation

…of color, ice cream and etc

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Mish-mash

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Two house side by side

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Semi-detached

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To be exposed to a lot of things

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Overwhelmed

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To make it happen

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Bring it about

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10
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Terrible

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Awful

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11
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To relief you stress on someone

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Take it out on someone

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12
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Not at all

1 word

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Whatsoever

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13
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Something to do to distract

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Outlet

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14
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Related with, because

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Be down to

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15
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Not at all

Phrase

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Not in the least

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To be worried about sth that is a misterious

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Unnerved

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17
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To hit someone when walking

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Run into / bump into

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18
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To sleep very fast

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To crash out

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To sleep in someone’s house

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To crash at someone’s house

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20
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Ears, eyes, mouth and so on

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Features

Delicate features

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Very dirty

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Filthy

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22
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Can’t stand anymore

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To be fed up with

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23
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Express opinion

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To speak your mind

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24
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To spend money

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Part with my cash

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25
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Pay more than its value

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To pay over the odds

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26
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The person that doesn’t like to spend money

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Stingy

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27
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Benefits in a job

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Perks

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28
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Result of an explosion

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Blast

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29
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Don’t let your hope to be so high

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Don’t get you hopes up!

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30
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A modified image

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Doctored image

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31
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Used to time with sand

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Hourglass

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32
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To speak very low and complain

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Muttering

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33
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Glasses

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Bespectacled

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34
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Surprising

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Astounding

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35
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Another name that the others give to you

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Dubbed

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36
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Together with

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Along with

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37
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To move quickly

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Flits

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38
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Light, soft

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Mild

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39
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To have courage, to challenge

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Dared

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40
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To be without Elétrico energy

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Power cut or outage

41
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A person that is too much trusting

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Gullible

42
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A person that doesn’t think about the consequences a take too much risk

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Reckless

43
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A person that loves to say what the other have to do

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Bossy

44
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A person that is strange / weird

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Odd person

45
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A person that is intelligent or energetic or sunny

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Bright person

46
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A person that has a lot of fear.

Opposite to courageous or brave

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Timid

47
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A person that overreacts with the problems

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Histrionic

48
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It comes at back of a book and describes what the book is about

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Blurb

49
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Short story

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Tale

50
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Over the top

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Negative characteristic like too expensive or too spice

Expression - it is…

51
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A person that is clever in a bad way

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Cunning

52
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A person that pretends to be good but do bad things in secret

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Sly

53
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A person that is selfish and always want more

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Greedy

54
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A person who rules with no consideration about the others

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Tyrant

55
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A person that is not sophisticated, ignorant about the world

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Naive

56
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A person who do bad things in stories

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Villain

57
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Evil, a desire to harm others

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Malevolence

58
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Distrusting other peoples motives

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Cynical

59
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The art of stuffing animals

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Taxidermy

60
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Very very enjoyable

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Relishingly

61
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Just desserts, appropriate result of wrong doing

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Comeuppance

62
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A person that doesn’t change his mind

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Obstinate

63
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A person that is brave

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Courageous

64
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A person that is too choosy or too selective

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Finicky

65
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A person that plans and worry about the possible dangerous - positive

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Cautious

66
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A person that doesn’t plan anything and just do it

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Impetuous

67
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A bargain

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Dirty cheap

68
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A person that is too much curious, inquisitive

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Nosy

69
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To be shabbily dressed / dressed in a poor condition

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Down-at-heel

70
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Poor or short of money

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Hard up

71
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A person that is vain, conceited / vaidoso ou pretencioso

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Big-headed

72
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To be fed up / bored

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Cheesed off

73
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Mad / insane

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Off one’s head

74
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To be tense / excited

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Keyed up

75
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A person that very clumsy / awkward in movement / difficult in handling things

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All thumbs

76
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To be completely exhausted

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Dead beat

77
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Unemployed

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To be on the dole

78
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To be old

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Long in the tooth

79
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Sensible / practical

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Down-to-earth

80
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Stubborn / having determination not to change one’s attitude / stubborn as a mule

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Pig-headed

81
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ill / not well

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Off colour

82
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Mean / stingy / miserly

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Tight-fisted

83
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Insensitive / not easily offended

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Thick-skinned

84
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Very frightening

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Hair-raising

85
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Dirty that comes out one’s eyes especially after sleep

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Sleep

86
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About 50 (51-52)

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50-odd

87
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To take note not carefully

Informal

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Jot sth down

Write down

88
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Very young people

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Spring chicken

89
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To be totally different from other person

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Polar oposittes

90
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Accidentally sleep too much

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Oversleep

91
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Deliberately sleep too much (eg on Saturday)

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Sleep in

92
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seriously at risk of extinction.

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Endangered

93
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mate and then produce offspring

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Breed

94
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A person’s child or children:

■ an animal’s young.

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Offspring

95
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look after and provide for oneself, without any help from others

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Fend

96
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[with obj.] kill (animals) for food.
■ kill (people or animals) in a cruel or violent way, typically in large numbers: innocent civilians are being slaughtered.

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Slaughter

97
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► noun

a young animal that has recently emerged from its egg.

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Hatchling

98
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a dog’s lead.

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Leash

99
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To investigate

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Look into

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