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unusual and strange, sometimes in an unpleasant way

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peculiar

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a place for worship that is holy because of a connection with a holy person or object

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shrine

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to have been as a child protected from harmful, unpleasant, or frightening experiences

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sheltered upbringing

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not having the things that are necessary for a pleasant life, such as enough money, food, or good living conditions

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deprived (background)

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to escape by running away, especially because of danger or fear

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flee

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a sudden illegal, often violent, taking of government power, especially by part of an army

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coup

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to fight in the front in military

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active service

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from nothing

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from scratch

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divorced/ single-parent family

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broken home

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(about a group of people) to be close, to support each other

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close-knit

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having or showing a special advantage

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privileged

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an amount of money given by a school, college, university, or other organization to pay for the studies of a person with great ability but little money

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scholarship

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a child whose parents are dead

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orphan

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primitive

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rough around the edges

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to learn to understand and accept something

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come to terms with something

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to be forgetful

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to have a memory like a sieve/ goldfish

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avoid someone/ sth

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give sth/ someone a wide berth

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to get on very well and become friends very quickly

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get on like a house on fire

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to attract no support, attention, or interest

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to go/ sink like a lead balloon

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sth was well received

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sth went down well

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very different, as different as possible

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as different as night and day

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used to say that you do not want to think about something because it is too worrying

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dread to think

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I’m looking forward to + ing opposite

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I’m dreading + ing

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to remove something from somewhere

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take sth out

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to cause a substance, especially blood, to come out of a body

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draw

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to compete in order to win something

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contend

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something that two people or groups cannot agree about

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bone of contention

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1-to say that something is certainly true | 2-to do something to show that you have power

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assert

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until and including this time

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as yet

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Inversion -> preposition with 2nd part

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no sooner -> than | not only -> but also

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inversion comes in 2nd part of the sentence

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only when | only after

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get along extremely well

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get on/ along famously

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he has hard time doing sth

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it's hard FOR him

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to be sheltered from the real world

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to live in a bubble

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to manage to understand something

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get your head round/around sth

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to attract no support, attention, or interest

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go down like a lead balloon

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to cause harm or suffering

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take a toll

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the point where a new, different, or dangerous situation is about to begin

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brink

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1-to encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings 2-to take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent

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foster

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to prevent something or someone from doing something or going somewhere, or to not allow something

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bar

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to stop being involved in an activity

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pull out of

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to increase something such as a price

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up

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to publicly praise or show approval for a person or an achievement

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hail

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1-an amount of money that you have to pay to travel along some main roads, to cross bridges, etc., or to make telephone calls over long distances 2-the total number of bad things or amount of damage that happens as a result of something

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toll

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to fight or argue or (about two opinions) to be very different from each other

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clash

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to criticize someone or something severely

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blast

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1-to make a new path or way by marking it so that others can follow 2-a large, strong fire

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blaze

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1-to pull something heavy slowly and with difficulty 2-to take something or someone somewhere, especially by force 3-a usually large amount of something that has been stolen or is illegal

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haul

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to come from or to have been born in a particular place

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hail from somewhere