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anodyne

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adjective
intended to avoid causing offence or disagreement, especially by not expressing strong feelings or opinions.

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Subversive

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adjective
Tending to weaken or destroy an established system.

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Transient

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adjective
Lasting only a short time

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To have one’s wits about oneself

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To react quickly when something happens unexpectedly.

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At a pinch

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Absolutely necessary.

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Give way to

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To be replaced by something.

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Common denominator

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Something common among a group of things/people that bind them together.

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Grudging

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Unwilling to give or allow something

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Overbearing

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adjective
Too confident and determined to tell someone what to do.

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Flippant

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adjective
Not serious about a serious subject

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Menacing

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adjective
Suggesting the presence of danger; threatening

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Unbending

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adjective
Unwilling to give up on one’s decisions

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Emanate

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To emit [e.g. light]

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On the grounds of

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On the basis of

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Entail

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verb
To involve or make something necessary

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Hold down

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Manage to keep

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Hold up

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Delay; rob

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Hold someone to

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Force or persuade someone to adhere to a commitment

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Hold out

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Continue to have enough of [e.g. supplies]

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Hold with

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Agree with; approve of

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Hold sth against sb

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Not forgive someone for something they have done

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Hold out for

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Wait until one gets what one has asked for

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Bark up the wrong tree

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Be wrong about the reason for something or the way to achieve something

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Beat about the bush

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To avoid talking about a serious subject

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Bite the dust
To die, to end in failure
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Burn one’s boat
To make it impossible to come back to a situation
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Call a spade a spade
To say something plainly, without skipping unpleasant and embarrassing details
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Do a bunk
To leave suddenly and unexpectedly
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Fly off the handle
To react in a very angry way to something that someone does or say
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Jump the gun
To do something without thinking about the consequences
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To be like a bear with a sore head
To be in a bad mood
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To be like a bull in a china shop
To be clumsy, likely to cause damage
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Like a red rag to a bull
Something that will cause an angry reaction
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Be off like as shot
Without hesitation; willingly
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To get on like a house on fire
To get along
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To work like a Trojan
To work extremely hard
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To have skin of a rhinoceros
To be tough and not easily offended
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To have memory like a sieve
To have a bad memory
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Know something like the back of one’s hand
To know something very well and in every detail
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To look like a drowned rat
To be extremely wet
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Like a bad penny
Something unpleasant that appears repeatedly
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Watch like a hawk
To watch someone all the time (especially to make sure they don’t do something bad)
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Mess about with
Play around with
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Tin good
Someone who is self important
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Casualty department
Department of a hospital that provides urgent treatment
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To rear someone
To take care of small children or animals
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Gibberish
To speak quickly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock
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Landlubbers
*noun* A person who has little knowledge of the sea or sailing
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Intrepid
*adjective* Fearless Extremely brave and showing no fear
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Derring-do
Babe action without considering the consequences
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Impede
*verb* To make it difficult for something to happen
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Trepidation
*noun* Fear or anxiety about something that might happen
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Proclivity
*noun* To like to do something, especially that is morally wrong
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Wiles
*noun* Ways of persuading/tricking someone into doing something
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Astounded
*adjective* To be very surprised/shocked
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Be a benchmark
A level of quality that could be used as a standard
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Arduous
*adjective* Difficult; needing a lot of effort and energy
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Noxious
*adjective* Harmful and poisonous
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Virulent
Posing danger of a disease caused by a virus
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A feather in one’s cap
Something to be proud of
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By the skin of one’s teeth
Only just barely succeeding in doing something
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Not see hide nor hair of
To not see someone for a period of time
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Ruffle someone’s feathers
To upset or annoy someone
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The fur begins to fly Make the fur fly
An angry argument or fight is about to start To cause a bad argument
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The scales drop/fall from one’s eyes
To suddenly see or know the truth
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Get one’s claws into someone
To find a way of controlling or influencing someone
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Untold
*adjective* So great in amount that it is impossible to express in words
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Unspoken
*adjective* Not expressed in words; non-verbal communication. Not spoken, although thought of or felt
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Carcass
An animal’s corpse
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To be notoriously difficult
To be famous in a negative way
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To be coaxed
To be tricked into doing something
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Beneath contempt
Utterly worthless or despicable
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To take to life
Beginning to believe
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To be taken aback
To be surprised or shocked by something and not able to respond at once
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Take off
Imitate someone
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To take after
To resemble a relative
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To take down
To write down
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Sound the alarm
Say or shout a message to warn people about something
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Make a stab
Attempt to do something although not successfully
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Swathe
A strip left clear by the passage of a mowing machine or a scythe. a long strip or large area especially of land.
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Atavistic
*adjective* Happening because of a very old habit
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Intimation
*noun* An action of making clear what one thinks without saying it directly
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Surmise
*verb* To guess without having proof
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Leveret
Baby hare
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Sow
Female pig
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Ram
Male sheep
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Ewe
Female sheep
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Mare
Female horse
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Foal
Baby horse
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Cob
Male swan
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Pen
Female swan
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Cygnet
Baby swan

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