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review
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Noun, Noun
look back
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Phrase, Noun
hindsight
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Noun
retrospection
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Noun
disconcerting
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Adjective
prescient
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Adjective
disappointing
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Adjective
regrettable
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Adjective
realize
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Verb
understandable
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Adjective
unsurprising
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Adjective
realization
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Noun
ironic
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Adjective
surprising
x/x
Adjective
counterintuitive
xxx/xx
Adjective
mistake
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Noun
epiphany
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Noun
foreshadowing
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Noun
shocking
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Adjective
misstep
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Noun
frankly
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Adverb
though
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Adverb
fact
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Noun
thought
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Noun
miscalculation
x/x/x
Noun
ironically
x/xx
Adverb
gratifying
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Adjective
mystifying
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Adjective
disquieting
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Adjective
mortifying
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Adjective
sobering
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Adjective
perhaps
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Adverb
baffling
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Adjective
unfortunate
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Adjective
denouement
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Noun
revelatory
x/xxx
Adjective
sense
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Noun
obvious
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Adjective
instructive
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Adjective
amusing
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Adjective
paradoxical
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Adjective
debatable
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Adjective
troubling
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Adjective
blunder
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Noun
surmise
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Noun
revelation
xx/x
Noun
puzzling
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Adjective
implication
xx/x
Noun
opportune
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Adjective
case
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Noun
comparison
x/xx
Noun
perplexing
x/x
Adjective
observation
xx/x
Noun
course
/
Noun
admittedly
x/xx
Adverb
irony
/xx
Noun
disappointment
xx/x
Noun
debacle
x/x
Noun
recollection
xx/x
Noun
retrospectively
xx/xx
Adverb
astonishing
x/xx
Adjective
happened
/x
Verb
startling
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Adjective
moment
/x
Noun
wonder
/x
Noun, Verb
however
x/x
Adverb
flashback
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Noun
actuality
xx/xx
Noun
unsettling
x/xx
Adjective
dispiriting
x/xx
Adjective
fiasco
x/x
Noun
foresight
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Noun
demoralizing
x/xxx
Adjective
horrifying
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Adjective
felicitous
x/xx
Adjective
frightening
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Adjective
depressing
x/x
Adjective
foolish
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Adjective
mattered
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Verb
arguable
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Adjective
worrisome
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Adjective
predicament
x/xx
Noun
disheartening
x/xx
Adjective
latter
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Noun
salutary
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Adjective
comical
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Adjective
jarring
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Noun
embarrassing
x/xx
Adjective
fortuitous
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Adjective
disastrous
x/x
Adjective
honestly
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Adverb
problematical
xx/xx
Adjective
juncture
/x
Noun
guess
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Noun
recollecting
xx/x
Verb
letdown
/x
Noun
regression
x/x
Noun
reflection
x/x
Noun
reminiscence
xx/x
Noun
throwback
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Noun
hark back
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Name, Verb, Name
reconsideration
xxxx/x
Noun
retroactivity
xxx/xx
Noun
reversion
x/x
Noun
retrogression
/x/x
Noun
revisit
x/x
Verb
backward
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Adjective
regress
/x
Noun
rethink
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Verb
retracing
x/x
Verb
afterthought
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Noun
step back
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Phrase, Verb, Noun
rumination
xx/x
Noun
backtrack
/x
Noun
mcnamara
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Name
ugarit
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Name
lysosome
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Noun
prospect
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Noun
reissue
x/x
Noun
schlesinger
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Name
totem
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Noun
nostalgic
x/x
Adjective
ida
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Name
grander
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Adjective
picasso
x/x
Name
cosmology
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Noun
appears
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Noun
roosevelt
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Name
keynes
/
Name
despondency
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Noun
historical
x/xx
Adjective
researches
x/x
Noun
melancholy
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Adjective
travel
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Noun
multiples
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Noun
fond
/
Adjective
mozart
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Name
calm
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Adjective
dogmas
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Noun
careers
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Noun
taboo
x/
Noun
tempting
/x
Verb
autobiographical
xxxx/xx
Adjective
hasty
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Adjective
anticipation
xxx/x
Noun
brief
/
Adjective
account
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Noun, Verb
afraid
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Adjective
aware
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Adjective, Verb
but
/
Adverb, Noun, Verb
decline
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Noun, Verb
doubtless
/x
Adverb, Adjective
else
/
Adverb, Adjective, Noun
epilogue
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Noun, Verb
event
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Noun, Verb
excursion
x/x
Noun, Verb
favour
/x
Noun, Verb
fortnight
/x
Noun
greeks
/
Name
henceforth
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Adverb
hereafter
x/x
Adverb, Noun, Adjective
journey
/x
Noun, Verb
let
/
Verb, Noun
list
/
Noun, Verb
morrow
/x
Noun, Verb
musing
/x
Noun, Adjective
must
/
Verb, Noun
pilgrimage
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Noun, Verb
preface
/x
Noun, Verb
prologue
/x
Noun, Verb
recital
x/x
Noun
remembrance
x/x
Noun, Verb
respite
/x
Noun, Verb
reverie
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Noun, Verb
thrilling
/x
Noun, Adjective
when
/
Adverb, Noun
whilst
/
Adverb
no
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective
literally
/xxx
Adverb
sorta
/x
Adverb
expression
x/x
Noun
idiomatic
xxx/x
Adjective, Noun
anymore
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Adverb
milestone
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Noun, Verb
tell
/
Verb, Noun
collocation
xx/x
Noun
chunk
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Noun, Verb
cluster
/x
Noun, Verb
bulletproof
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Adjective, Verb
vernacular
x/xx
Noun, Adjective
standard
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Adjective, Noun