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of average size, quality, ability etc start learning
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Rachel Fielding had a middling-to-glamorous career
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a coloured line, especially one that is not straight or has been made accidentally, an element or trace of some quality or characteristic. start learning
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Rachel also discovered her first grey streak,
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used to emphasize what you are saying in a slightly rude way start learning
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not having children doesn't mean you can be so bloody selfish'.
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if you ____ sb you end a relationship with them start learning
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The sacking, or the dumping, or the grey hair was depressing enough on its own.
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to describe a situation or information in a way that is intended to influence the way people think about it start learning
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someone skilled in spinning bad news
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literary to have a strong desire for something, especially something that is difficult or impossible to get [= long] start learning
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Rachel longed - yearned- to be lying face down in a puddle of Bailey's ice cream
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a type of lawyer in Britain who gives legal advice, prepares the necessary documents when property is bought or sold, and defends people, especially in the lower courts of law start learning
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she was sitting on a plastic chair in a solicitor's office
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a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom and is the food division of the British retailer and worker co-operative the John Lewis Partnership. As of January 2010, it had 225 branches across the United Kingdom and a 4.3% share of the market, making it the 6th largest grocery retailer in the UK start learning
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the arrival of Waitrose was still something of a talking point,
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something which a person owns, especially land or shares in a company start learning
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Rachel had just inherited a substantial holding',
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to gradually become less and less or smaller and smaller start learning
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she was headed for a dwindling twilight of dog hair and ready meals for one
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the time when day is just starting to become night [= dusk] start learning
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was headed for a dwindling twilight of dog hair
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someone's job, position, or duty [= role] start learning
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her new capacity as executor
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someone who deals with the instructions in someone's will start learning
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her new capacity as executor
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pretty much sole beneficiary of Dot's estate
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sb who receives money or property from sb else who has died start learning
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she was pretty much sole beneficiary of Dot's estate
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a place where dogs are kept for breeding or are cared for while their owners are away start learning
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or kennels Dot's estate, comprising family house, kennels
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behaving in a way that is morally wrong [= evil] start learning
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Oliver's dark-eyed wickedness slid across her mind
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a computer program that makes a moving image appear on the screen when the image on it has not changed for a period of time, especially so that the screen does not become damaged start learning
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Oliver's dark-eyed wickedness slid across her mind like a masochistic Screensaver
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behaviour that makes it seem that someone wants to suffer or have problems start learning
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a masochistic Screensaver
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