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to break off (mid-sentence); to stop (saying)

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stick; piece of wood; billet; piece of a broken pole

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to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on

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given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...

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close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related

5

to be noticeable; to notice; to catch one's eye

5

sigh

4

to ponder; to brood

4

never; not at all

2

attention; notice; care; caution; advice; warning

4

Later Zhou dynasty (China, 951-960); Later Chou dynasty

2

hiss (esp. cat); sizzle; whoosh

2

frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed

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good feeling

1

to talk; to chat; to chatter

7

to fall on one's backside

2

God; god; ace; king; superior person

1

pink (colour, color); (lit.) colour of peach (flowers)

1

jealousy; envy

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curse; malediction; hex

2

(arch.) hovering like mist or clouds; gentle; calm

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(arch.) hovering like mist or clouds; gentle; calm

2

dusk; twilight scene

4

storage shed

2

tottering; staggering; reeling

1

to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check

4

to fall in love (with); to love

1

to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal

2

wrong; groundless; different; separate; unexpected; surprising

5

trembling from fear; trembling all over

2

eczema; rash

1

to creak; to squeak; to grate; to grind; to rasp

1

weirdly beautiful

2

garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; place; location

6

to surface; to come to the top; to stand out (e.g. against a background)

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wisdom; wit; sagacity; prajna (insight leading to enlightenment)

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to be dampened (of the mood, interest, etc.); to be spoiled (e.g. of the atmosphere); to become subdued; to turn white; to fade (to white); to grow light (at dawn)

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to; traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres; square bearing block (at the top of a pillar); Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

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cold water

1

to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate

2

to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit

1

(inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence

3

to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to make ambiguous; to evade (e.g. the point); to be noncommittal about

2

mask; disguise; guise; mask

1

to stiffen; to become stiff

2

to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death

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just a little

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to breathe (heavily); to pant; to gasp; to live

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plover

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semidarkness; deep and strange; hades; the present and the other world; dark and light

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