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charge on motorway
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toll; for example road toll, bridge toll
safe place
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haven; National Park is a haven for wild life.
prone to; volnurable
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susceptible to
big, affecting a lof of people changes
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far-reaching
change place of living
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move to; I moved to USA.
new-order changes
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sweeping changes to the tax system
large group of people; small pieces of wool, cotton used for fillig cushions
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flock, the flock of the priest
become less pleasant; turn out badly
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to turn sour, milk can turn sour; As time went by, their marriage turned sour.
a moral or legal obligation; a responsibility; a payment levied on the import, export, manufacture, or sale of goods
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duty; your duties will include operating the switchboard
to look for
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to seek
fraught with; fraught atmosphere; fraught air
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full of sth; the marriage has been fraught with difficulties.
to try to make sb angry or upset by saying unkind things to them; to tease; to poke fun at; to wind up
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to taunt; racist taunts; other children taunted him about his weight.
barbed wire
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wire with short sharp points on it
an important new discovery; especially one made after trying for a long time
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breakthrough
sth that makes sb less likely to do sth, by making them realize it will be difficult or have bad results
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deterent - noun; the small fines for this type of crime do not act as much of deterent.
hostile behaviour; unfriendliness or opposition
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hostility - opposite to hospitality; open/ outright hostility - the one that is cleary shown; hostility towards foreigners

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