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highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly

3

order; request

1

to exercise one's ingenuity; to come up with an ingenious plan

2

light weight

5

to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

9

The Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville Wright)

1

blasphemy; curse; profanity; sacrilege; desecration

10

elegance; grace; article; item; counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant)

11

idle complaint; grumble; moha (ignorance, folly)

6

full speed

1

approach run; run-up

2

at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just

9

wife; Mrs; (arch.) wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.); (arch.) consort of the emperor

4

demand for; request

4

to taper to a point; to become pointed; to become sharp; to look displeased; to look sour; to be on edge

5

individual; distinctive; unique; characteristic; personal; idiosyncratic

2

to get tired of; to lose interest in; to grow bored

2

to burn; to get fired up

10

to love one another

2

thereupon; shortly thereafter

25

better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth

16

a few moments

5

ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very

4

what sort; what kind

8

personality; character; personal appearance; gentility

3

indiscriminately

1

using anything one can lay one's hands on; haphazardly; on the rebound; at random; indiscriminately

7

difference; discrepancy; variation

3

apart from that; to return to the topic; enough of that

2

random attacker; slasher; demon who brings misfortune to houses or people he passes by

1

reflexive; reflecting

12

a day after the fair; (at a) stage when it's too late

3

shell; cannonball

1

rush; charge

9

to dodge; to evade; to avoid; to sidestep

21

anguish

2

to cover one's face

14

sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

11

no!; no no!; no, not at all

6

a bit more; a bit longer

3

act of God; irresistible force; inevitability; force majeure; vis major

2

warm welcome

3

girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman

12

to cave in; to become depressed; to sink

2

bun (hairstyle)

1

yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof

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to bloom; to blossom; to become lively (esp. of conversation); to become animated; to experience a golden age

3

carefree; free from worry

2

sight (e.g. of a gun); aim; alignment

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efficacy; benefit; efficiency; effect; result; success

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