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acquaintance with lenience to

affection for leisure for
apology for limit to
aptitude for longing for
assurance of match for
blame for need of
candidate for neglect of
capacity for obedience to
care of objection to
cause for/of peace of/with
charge of pity for
claim an/to prejudice against
complaint against pride in
confidence in progress in
control over quarrel with
disgrace to regard for
duty to remedy for
excuse for reputation for
fondness for respect for
freedom from slave to/of
grief at subscription to
haltered for sympathy for
heir to taste for
influence with traitor to
interest in victim of
invitation to
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abide by call on/for/to explain to

abound with care for export from
abstain from charge with fall under
accede to come across feed on
acquit of compare with/to feel for
act from compete with fight against/for
admit of complain of fly at
agree to/with comply with furnish with
aim at confer on get on
apologies to confide in/to grieve at
appeal to congratulate on grumble at
appoint to consist of hide from
arrive at/in convict of impress on
attend upon/to cure of infest with
avail of deal with/in inquire into
avenge on dream of interfere with
averse to defend from/against jump at
bear with deposit in play with
beat against deprive of prohibit from
beg of/for derive from protect from
believe in despair of provide with/for
bestow on die of reconcile to
beware of differ with recover from
blame for disagree with relieve of
boast of dispose of remind of
borrow from dissuade from subscribe to
break into enlist in succeed to
brood over enter into triumph over
buy for exchange for yield to
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accounted with due to peculiar to

acquitted of eligible for popular with
accused of engaged to preferable to
addicted to equal to prepared for
adjacent to essential to proficient in
affected with faithful to proud of
afraid to familiar to/with quick at
afraid of famous for reconciled with
amazed at ffalse of reduced to
angry with fit for related to
annoyed at fond of repentant of
anxious about/for free from respectful to
appropriate to full of satisfied with
ashamed of glad at/to/of sensitive to
astonished at good at/for serviceable to
averse to greedy for shocked at
backward in guilty of short of
beneficial to honest in sick of
bent on hopeful of similar to
blessed with ignorant of slow of
blind in/to ill with sorry for
born of indifferent to steeped in
bound for infested with suited to
busy with intent to sure of
capable of introduce to suspicious of
careful about jealous of sympathetic to
charged with lame in thankful for/to
conscious of lost to tired of
confident of loyal to ttrue to
contented with married to useful for
contrary to negligent in/of vain of
convenient for obedient to versed in
courteous to obliged to vexed at
deaf to occupied by/with weak in
deficient in offended with worthy of
dependent on open to
desirous of over whelmed with
different from owing to
disgusted with partial to