Vocabulary

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to present a very terrible (miserable) sight

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to reach the summit

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to nail a crosspiece (to)

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to calculate; to divine

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to amass a fortune

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to exile a criminal

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to build a fortune

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to sit on a cushion

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one's desk-side book

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the oppressed; downtrodden people

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to have a qualification (for)

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to hold a ceremony

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to formularize (a theory); to formularise

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to provide with funds; to fund; to advance some capital; to furnish with funds

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to be assiduous in one's business

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to get to work

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to be fit for work

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to finish the work

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to finish one's work

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to quit one's job; to resign

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irresistible force

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to revive the dead

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unparalleled in history (unparallelled)

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low spirits; depressed heart

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events on the street

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to straighten oneself

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natural tendency; natural course of events; force of circumstances

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soft and pleasant on the tongue

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more generously for the lower-paid

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lower floor

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downstairs room

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to stick out one's tongue

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to forfeit a pawned article

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flames of jealousy

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to answer a question

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refined; genteel; graceful; decent

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to leave one's name; to cement one's name (e.g. in history); to make a lasting mark

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to bring (a book) into the world; to publish

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to fight to the last (death)

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to decline to pay; to refuse payment

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