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Frequency data from Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare.
(of insects) to undergo metamorphosis / (fig.) to be transformed / to metamorphose / to become degraded
(idiom) to degenerate (morally) / to become depraved
(biology) to carcinize
atherosclerosis / hardening of the arteries
to evolve (of ideas, designs, constructions etc) / to develop and change
to come to the surface / to become apparent
surfactant
to be made redundant
objectified
to crack (fractionally distill oil)
denudation
regularity
to standardize / standardization
(medicine) keratosis
memoization (computing)
securitization ratio
changeable / changing / varied / full of changes
(idiom) changeable / fickle
(baseball) breaking ball / (fig.) curveball / unexpected turn of events
unpredictable / changeable
(music) accidental (a note foreign to the key signature)
to degrade the performance of a sold product via a system update
(idiom) corruption
gentrification / aristocratic / upper-class
chemotaxis (movement of leukocytes under chemical stimulus)
(biology) convergent evolution
to internationalize / to globalize
intercultural
militarization
inverted sugar
office automation
collectivization of agriculture (in Marxist theory)
collectivization of agriculture (in Marxist theory)
modernization of agriculture, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
collectivization of agriculture (under communism)
communications automation
misfortune turns to blessing (idiom) / to turn an inauspicious start to good account
peroxide
hydrogen peroxide H2O2
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