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What do people use on to talk about?
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What words refer to being about something or someone?
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What words indicate what something is about?
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What words refer to believing that something is true?
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What words refer to believing that someone is truthful?
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What words describe something or someone that can be believed?
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What words indicate that something is almost a particular number or amount?
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What words indicate that something has almost reached a particular state?
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What words indicate that someone almost does something?
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What words indicate that something almost happens?
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What words indicate that something is almost the best or worst example of some quality?
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What words refer to being determined to do something?
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What words refer to being so determined that you are even willing to do something bad?
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What words refer to becoming more determined?
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What words refer to persevering in a task?
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What words refer to acting in such a way that someone is led to believe something false?deceive fool take in defraud cheat fleece bilk swindle hustle dupe hoodwink foist upon palm off on outwit outmaneuver finagle slip one over on put something over on con lay a trap for lure beguile delude trick entrap ensnare pull the wool over someone's eyes play a trick on play a practical joke on send on a fool's errand make a fool of mislead
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What words refer to traveling someplace on foot?
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What words refer to walking on your toes?
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What words refer to stepping on something?
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What words refer to forcing someone to do something?compel blackmail browbeat bully (v) coerce constrain drive force someone to do something use force force something on insist impel impose your will on make someone do something oblige press pressure put pressure on push use strong-arm tactics use strong-arm methods under duress be breathing down someone's neck
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What words refer to forcing someone to accept something?
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What words indicate that something is near something else?
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What words refer to moving nearer to someone or something?
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What words refer to moving nearer to a person or vehicle in front of you?
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What words indicate that something is nearer than something else?
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What words describe something in a horizontal position?
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What words refer to becoming horizontal?
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What words refer to the lights being on in a place?
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What words refer to a light starting to work?
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What words refer to making a light start working?
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What words refer to not turning off the lights?
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What words indicate that something happens on time?
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What words refer to finishing something within the time that is allowed?
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What words describe the movement of a wave?
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What do waves do when they hit the shore?
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What do waves do to things?
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What words refer to showing something to a lot of people?
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What words refer to paying attention?
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What words refer to paying attention to something?
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What words refer to making someone pay attention to something?
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What words refer to thinking about something for a period of time?think about brood cogitate consider give consideration to contemplate meditate muse mull over occupy your mind ponder reconsider reflect reflection ruminate speculate study weigh wonder go around in your mind do some thinking keep your mind on have something on your mind deduce deduction induction inductive logic apply yourself pay attention bethink conclude observe process reason theorize
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What words refer to thinking about something again?
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What words refer to something showing that something has a good quality?
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What words refer to something showing that something has a bad quality?
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What words refer to being in a standing position?
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How do people stand?
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How do you order someone to stand?
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What words describe how a person is sitting?
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What words refer to squatting?
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What words refer to sitting on something?
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What words refer to following someone?
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What words refer to following someone closely?
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What words refer to moving faster than the person you are following?
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What words refer to waiting?
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How do you tell someone to wait?
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What words refer to adding a new part or piece to something?
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What words refer to adding more to an amount of something?
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What words refer to adding to what has been said?
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What words refer to aiming at a target?
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What words refer to hitting a target?
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What words refer to needing something very much?
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What prepositions are in your language?
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What words express the fact that something is logically dependent on another?
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What words refer to watching something?
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What words refer to watching something so that nothing bad happens?
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What words refer to secretly watching something?
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What words refer to dying as a result of illness or old age?
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What words are used to describe the manner in which someone dies?drop dead keel over slow death sudden death painful death excruciating death gruesome death horrible death die quietly die peacefully die with boots on die fighting fade away succumb (to illness) drown drowning asphyxiate suffocate choke to death sacrifice succumb (to a disease) suffocate suffocation starvation starve starve to death burn to death freeze to death
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What words describe someone who is almost dead?
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What words describe someone who can think quickly?
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What words refer to influencing someone to change his thinking or decision?
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What words refer to your ability to change another's mind or decision?
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What words refer to being worried all the time?
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What words refer to causing someone to feel worried?
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What words refer to feeling nervous?
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What words refer to causing someone to feel nervous?
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What words refer to blaming someone for something?
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What words refer to a facial expression?
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What words refer to making an expression on your face?
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What words refer to going to someone's place to see them?
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What words refer to something said humorously?
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What words refer to something done humorously?
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What words refer to going on a holiday?
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What words refer to attacking someone?
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What words refer to wearing clothing?
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What words refer to putting clothing on?
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What words refer to when a machine is working?
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What words refer to starting a machine?
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What words refer to kneeling down?
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What words refer to being in a kneeling position?
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What words refer to pulling something, but without making it come away from the thing it is connected to?
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What words refer to pulling something onto you?
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What words indicate that something started in the past and continued until now?
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What words indicate that something starts to happen now and will continue?
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What words indicate that something will start in the future and continue?
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What words indicate that one thing is the basis for another?
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What words describe where the sun is shining?
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What else does the sun do?
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What words describe something being blown by the wind?
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What do drops of water do?
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What words refer to recovering?
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What words refer to being healthy after being sick?
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What words refer to attracting someone sexually?
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What words describe something someone does to attract someone?
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What words refer to the government killing someone because they committed a crime?
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What words refer to trying to kill someone?
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What words refer to an alert mental state?
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What words refer to ignoring something someone says to you?
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What words refer to a person in authority ignoring what is good for the people under them?
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What words refer to when two people agree?
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What words refer to a gesture expressing agreement?
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What words refer to intending to do something?
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What words describe something that someone intended to do?
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What words do people use when giving advice?
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What words refer to doing what someone advises?
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What words refer to feeling excited?
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What words refer to disliking something?don't like dislike (v) take a disliking to take an instant dislike to have a healthy dislike for not be fond of not keen on not be crazy about not think much of not be someone's cup of tea not be to your taste not be to your liking not be your thing not be your type have no time for not take kindly to don't care for look down on turn up your nose at be unhappy with hold in disfavor feel unfavorable toward be displeased with
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What words refer to explaining something?
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What words refer to criticizing someone or something?criticize be critical be a critic of critique accuse attack launch into an attack on badmouth belittle blame carp cavil censure cite charge decry denounce deprecate deride disparage gibe harangue judge lay into mock rake someone over the coals recriminate reprehend reproach ridicule scoff speak evil of tear down (someone) voice your disapproval
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What words refer to strongly criticizing someone or something?
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What words refer to not doing what you promised?
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What words refer to talking to someone on the telephone?
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What words describe a person's stance toward a group?
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What words describe a person's role in a group?
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What words refer to acting in a drama?
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What words refer to a place where a drama is performed?
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What words refer to being bad-tempered for a short time?
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What words refer to despising someone?
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What words refer to being proud of something or someone?
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What words refer to behaving in a proud way toward other people?
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What words refer to needing someone to provide for you?
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What words refer to spoiling someone's work?
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What words refer to spoiling an event?
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What words refer to relying on someone to do something?
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What words refer to being lucky on a particular occasion?
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What do people say to try to prevent bad luck?
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What words indicate someone who is representing another person?
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What words refer to rioting?
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What words refer to telling secrets to an enemy?
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What words refer to doing something using sorcery?
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What words refer to being naked?
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What words refer to putting on cosmetics?
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What words refer to having cosmetics on?
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What words refer to adding fuel to a fire?
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What words refer to blowing on a fire to make it bigger?
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What words refer to an expert?
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What words describe an expert?
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What words refer to spending less money?
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What words refer to earning money?
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What words refer to someone who earns money?
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What words refer to beginning to run?
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What words refer to running faster?
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What words refer to crawling?
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What words refer to falling?
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What words refer to falling from a standing position?
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What words refer to moving near something?
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What words refer to two things moving toward each other?
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What words refer to going on a journey?
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What words refer to moving from place to place and then returning to the first place?
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What words refer to using a map?
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What words describe someone who has escaped?
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What words refer to carrying something in a particular manner?
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What words refer to pushing something, but without making it move?
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What words refer to how hard you push?
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What words refer to kicking something?
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What words indicate an amount that is more than an amount already mentioned?
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What words refer to something being more than a particular number or amount?
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What words refer to decreasing slowly?
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What words refer to reducing the amount of something you use or how much you do?
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What words refer to trying to become thin?
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What words indicate that something is far from something else?far far away far off afar far afield far and wide a far cry from far apart far removed distant be distant a long distance in the distance some distance a good distance a ways way off a long way (off) a long ways away a fair way quite a ways nowhere near miles (away) yonder wide of clear off all over asunder at arm's length on the horizon the ends of the earth uttermost parts of the earth
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What words indicate that something is farther than something else?
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What words describe something in a leaning position?
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What words describe a surface that is sloping?
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What words indicate that something happens sometimes but not regularly?
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What words indicate that something happens after a particular time or event?
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What words indicate that something comes after another in a series?
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What words describe a person or animal that is old?
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What words refer to being almost a particular age?
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What words refer to continuing to do something?
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What words indicate that something is beside something else?
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What words indicate that something is on something else?
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What words indicate that something is across from something else?
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What words are used to end a list of things to indicate that there are more things in the list?
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What do people say when they want someone else to start?
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What words are used to indicate something is continuing?
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What words indicate that something seems to be happening, or something seems to be true?
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What words indicate that you could add more things to the end of a list?
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What words indicate that an opinion is different than the opinion you have just given?
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What words indicate that the opposite of something is true?
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What words describe where the moon is shining?
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What words refer to putting water on something?
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What do birds do to eggs?
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What words refer to seeing something?
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What words refer to consciously looking at something?
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What words refer to examining something?
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What words indicate that a piece of clothing looks good on someone?
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What words refer to something that is ugly?
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What words refer to a sound becoming loud enough so that it can be heard?
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What words describe someone who is tired?
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What causes someone to lose consciousness?
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What words refer to keeping someone alive?
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What words refer to leaving your husband or wife?
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What words refer loving someone very much?
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What words describe someone who wants to have sex?
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What words refer to sex with a person you are not married to?
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What words refer to carrying a baby?
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What words refer to taking care of a child while their parents are doing something else?
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What words refer to becoming old?
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What do people do to show they are mourning?
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What words refer to thinking something?
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What words refer to learning something?learn acquaint acquire ascertain conclude dawn on deduce determine discover examine experience figure out find get (the answer) glean grasp (mentally) gain (knowledge/understanding) look something up master obtain perceive pick someone's brain pick up (a subject) question (v) realize recognize reflect study get an education
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What words refer to checking something to make sure it is true or correct?
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What words refer to realizing something?
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What words refer to not approving of something?
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What words refer to remembering things that happened in the past?
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What words refer to wanting something?
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What words refer to deciding to do something?
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What words refer to trying to reach a goal?
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What words refer to choosing something?
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What words refer to doing something deliberately?
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What words refer to agreeing to do something?
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What words refer to requesting that someone do something for someone else?
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What words refer to accepting an offer?
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What words refer to controlling your feelings again after losing control?
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What words refer to feeling very happy?
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What words refer to feeling indifferent?
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What words refer to feeling hateful?
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What words refer to feeling sorry?
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What words refer to causing someone to feel ashamed?
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What words refer to feeling very angry?
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What words refer to causing someone to feel annoyed?
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What words refer to causing someone to feel afraid?
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What words refer to saying something?
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What words refer to speaking for a long time?
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What words refer to talking about a subject?
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What words refer to mentioning something?
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What words refer to telling the truth?
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What words refer to exaggerating?
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What words refer to carrying on a conversation with other people?
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What words refer to hiding information?
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What words refer to mocking someone?
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What words refer to complaining all the time?
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What words refer to making a speech?
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What words refer to starting to cry?
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What words refer to reading carefully?
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What words refer to making a record?
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What words refer to playing music?
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What words indicate that someone lives nearby?
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What words describe a group that is disunited?
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What words describe a person who is alone?
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What words refer to inheriting physical traits from your ancestors?
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What words refer to belonging to a group?
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What words describe how well a person sings?
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What words refer to doing something good?
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What words refer to hurting someone's reputation?
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What words refer to admiring someone very much?
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What words refer to showing off?
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What words refer to loving someone very much?
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What words refer to hating someone?
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What words refer to doing evil to yourself?
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What words describe a person who cannot be relied on to do what he should?
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What words refer to controlling your desire to drink alcohol?
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What words refer to trying to change someone's behavior?
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What words describe something that causes bad luck?
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What words refer to serving someone?
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What words refer moving to a higher status or position in an organization?
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What words are used of the action of judging a person?
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What words are used of escaping from prison?
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What words are used of not punishing someone who has been found guilty?
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What words refer to hostility between people?
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What words refer to enemies fighting?
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What words refer to fighting against something bad?
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What words refer to ambushing someone?
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What words refer to fighting a war?
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What words refer to winning a fight or war?
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What do spies do?
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What words refer to someone telling another that he has done wrong?
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What words refer to forgiving someone?
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What words refer to cursing someone?
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What words refer to going to heaven or hell?
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What do people do with cabinets?
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What words refer to biting something?
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What words refer to eating a little?
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What words refer to being full of food?
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What words refer to taking drugs?
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What words refer to deliberately burning something?
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What words are used of a person starting a fire?
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What do sparks do?
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What do people do to wake someone up?
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What words refer to working poorly?
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What words refer to having an advantage over other people?
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What words are used for very bad poverty?
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What words refer to giving many things to someone?
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What words refer to a price that seems low?
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What words refer to not spending a lot of money?
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What words refer to cheating someone?
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What words refer to going on strike?
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What words describe how a person is lying?
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What words refer to leaning against something?
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What words refer to jumping on one leg?
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What words refer to moving more quickly?
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What words describe someone who moves in a graceful way?
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What words refer to moving onto something?
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What words refer to moving in a train?
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What words refer to guiding someone?
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What words refer to pursuing someone?
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What words refer to putting something on top of something?
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What words refer to keeping something?
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What words refer to more than one thing moving toward each other?
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What words refer to searching for something?
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What words refer to pressing something?
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What words refer to doing something by yourself?
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What words indicate that something happens at an exact time?
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What words describe an average number?
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What words refer to not having enough of something?
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What words refer to becoming tall?
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What words refer to someone becoming fat?
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What words indicate that something (like an area or road) continues for some distance?
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What words refer to something fitting?
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What words refer to something becoming heavy?
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What words refer to making something vertical?
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What words refer to thinking the same as someone else?
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What words indicate that something is happening at some time?
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What words indicate that something happens for a long time?
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What words are used to indicate that something will continue forever?
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What words indicate that something happens before a particular event?
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What words indicate that something happens late?
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What do people say when they want someone else to start?
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What words refer to something becoming old fashioned?
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What words indicate that an event has happened once?
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What words refer to continue doing something after stopping?
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What do you say to someone when you want him to hurry?
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What words refer to a place near the speaker?
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What words indicate that something is above something else?
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What words refer to the true situation rather than the situation that people think exists?
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What interjections are in your language?
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What words indicate that someone is certain about something?
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What words indicate that someone or something will probably be successful?
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What words indicate that something is true of one person instead of another person?
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What words indicate that something is generally true?
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What words are used when a speaker hesitates or pauses to think?
Examples on examples
How do I use on in a sentence?
Simple sentences
Your glasses fell on the floor.
When we borrow money, we must agree on the conditions.
Do you have a pen on you?
We're going to eat a lot tonight so I hope you're not on a diet.
Do you think he made that mistake on purpose?
You don't go to school on Sunday, do you?
You must be back on Sunday at the latest.
You can always count on Tom.
You must not depend so much on others.
You made the mistake on purpose, didn't you?
Your comic books are on the shelf.
Everyone must learn on their own in the end.
Step on it!
It depends on the context.
Tomorrow, he will land on the moon.
It's useless to keep on thinking any more.
I have too many things on my mind these days.
Place the deck of cards on the oaken table.
When you're beginning to look like the photo in your passport, you should go on a holiday.
When you start to look like the photo in your passport, it's time to go on vacation.
When you start looking like your passport photo you should go on vacation.
It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.
It's a complete mess, and it's getting on my nerves.
Being objective means not telling everybody whose side you are on.
You did it on purpose, didn't you?
Come on, play with me, I'm so bored!
If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.
Movie subtitles
You should have gone somewhere else.why on a Sunday?
I don't have make up on, they won't recognize me.
Am I the only one to be pick on? Am I some kind of passing dog?
On tomorrow's sports news page, it's going to be our headline.
I have to rely on you.
Yes, by contacting them on the radio.
Come on, almost..
What are you going to do from now on?
Hey, you're planning on staying here?
Men sleep on the floor.
If you concentrate on Zero too much, they will pull the rug out from under you!
Apparently on lack of evidence.
I placed a Geass on her which makes her carve a symbol on this wall every day.
Apparently on lack of evidence. Well, it looks like he was thoroughly investigated, thanks to that incident with Zero.
I wonder if it would work on me?
Put a cordon on the 4th Zone of the Shinjuku Ghetto.
After having the Geass cast on them, or when it's in effect, there is a noticeable gap in memory.
Get on!
Wouldn't this be a good chance to get battle data on the Lancelot?
Dammit. four on one.
I can't allow a meaningless fight to go on!
Kids will always be able to get their hands on PBJs.
We get someone on the outside, usually a junior high kid.
Suspended on the spot, get sent home, your parents freak out, and that's why I won't let anybody in my crew touch the stuff.
Nick's always told us none of us can get involved with the peanut racket, and there's no way I'm going to betray Nick for a kiss on the cheek for a lousy seven seconds.
She must have put a spell on me.
So I heard you spent my 40 bucks in peanut money on a bag of tampons.
Come on! I only eat bugs when I'm really hungry, like when my mom sleeps in and forgets to pack my lunch.
I'd better go talk to Mary on this one.
Just gonna go take a little dump. I gotta go to the bathroom and go catch up on some reading. I gotta take the Browns to the Superbowl.
Oh, come on, J.J., you know I wouldn't touch this shit.
Something's going on.
Look, I got a free catcher, I got one of Nick's crew suspended, and I got Nick to turn his back on one of his best friends.
Nick, come on!
Then, when he did, I made this huge deal about turning my back on him.
News and current affairs
Of course, such considerations might have little influence on prices.
Indeed, on the surface it seems to be its perfect antithesis: the collapse of a wall symbolizing oppression and artificial divisions versus the collapse of a seemingly indestructible and reassuring institution of financial capitalism.
NEW YORK - On May 8, 1945, when World War II in Europe officially ended, much of the world lay in ruins.
It cannot be the same as the 1945 consensus, but we would do well, on this anniversary, to remember why that consensus was forged in the first place.
He gave a fascinating talk about his adventures, complete with clips of him floating around, catching bubbles in his mouth, and so on.
But was it really a war that started on September 11, 2001?
Such restrictions on freedom did not meet with much public opposition when they were adopted.
On the contrary, by and large it was the critics, not the supporters, of these measures who found themselves in trouble.
Some of today's restrictions on habeas corpus and civil liberties have sunset clauses restricting their validity; all such rules should be re-examined by parliaments regularly.
The feature of the proposed pact that elicits the most excitement - its focus on regulatory barriers like mandatory product standards - should actually incite the greatest concern.
Instead, they focused exclusively on US foreign debt, ignoring household debt (mortgage and consumer debt), public debt, business debt, and financial debt.
Second, troubles in any single component of total debt will have an impact on all the other components.
To offset the negative impact of private-sector deleveraging on growth, the US government has maintained expansionary fiscal and monetary policies.
Now, with household debt sustained on a knife-edge after feverish government intervention, the fiscal position has deteriorated dramatically and the current-account balance has worsened again.
Europe is being cautious in the name of avoiding debt and defending the euro, whereas the US has moved on many fronts in order not to waste an ideal opportunity to implement badly needed structural reforms.
Later, I went on a tour that they organized to watch the launch of Charles Simonyi, the fifth (and soon seventh) space tourist, from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
While the legislation does too little to address America's problem of chronic and rising budget deficits, the damage that it inflicts on the economy in the short term is likely to be limited.
This is too small a pool of money from which to achieve deficit reduction on the scale that the US will need in the years ahead.
International cooperation has increased markedly, in part because governments that cannot agree on many things can agree on the need to cooperate in this area.