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to polish one's skills

2

to spring; to bound; to be stimulated; to be encouraged; to pay handsomely; to splurge

10

to establish; to formulate

1

biography of a brave fighter; heroic saga; chivalric romance; tale of one's heroism; episode of bravery; acts of violence

3

embarrassed; self-conscious; bashful; abashed

1

nostrils; wings of the nose

1

compliments; civilities; hospitality; special treatment; bill (at a restaurant); check

1

embarrassed smile; embarrassed laugh; bashful smile

3

thinking back now; looking back

1

to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal (e.g. to the public); to urge; to exhort

3

ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound

1

rock hard; stiff and unyielding (personality); clangor

1

prohibition; inhibition; ban

2

suddenly in a bad mood; in a huff; abruptly; suddenly; unexpectedly

1

curt; blunt; brusque

1

to court; to woo; to approach defiantly

7

tee-hee

2

to hesitate to say; to hem and haw; to falter in one's speech; to be stuck for a word; to mumble

4

protection; repellent

1

relationship; relation; terms (good, friendly, etc.)

2

design

2

lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous

3

escort

3

stone pillar

1

harmonious; intimate

1

absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic

2

next or adjoining room

1

double (two-leaf) door

2

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

6

to come and go; to go back and forth

5

ornament; decoration

8

lady; noblewoman

1

gentleman

1

whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur

2

loose; immoral; dissolute; slovenly; untidy; messy

1

eldest daughter; first-born daughter

3

monopoly; monopolization; exclusivity; hogging; keeping to oneself

4

set one's teeth on edge

1

plentiful; lot of; much; pile of

3

accomplishment; lessons (in an art, skill, etc.); practice

1

dullard; indecisive person

1

to work together (in the same class, workplace, etc.); to be classmates; to sit side by side; (lit.) to put (one's) desks side by side

1

older sister

4

treating (someone) with great caution (so as not to anger or upset them); handling with kid gloves; treating gingerly

1

recuperation; medical treatment

1

to lie; to pretend; to feign; to deceive; to trick

1

now (esp. in contrast to the past); now at last; at present; right now

2

degree of attention; profile

1

status of a subject

10

connection; link; relationship

1