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posing; modeling; modelling

2

limply

1

nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)

12

to pep up; to cheer up

5

bodybuilding

1

gloomy; melancholy; pessimistic; luxuriant (of vegetation)

1

to go back to the start; to reset; to restore; to return to the point (of a discussion); to return something (that has been moved) to previous place; to reconstitute

4

experience; being accustomed (to something); poise in a critical situation

1

conceptual; ideational; notional; theoretical; academic

1

magic

1

mime; dumb show; silent drama; pantomime

1

manservant

3

pole; climax; extreme; extremity

2

to square one's shoulders (in order to intimidate)

1

esoteric Buddhist ritual in which incantations are chanted; magic

2

to house; to contain; to carry (a baby); to be pregnant; (arch.) to give lodging to; (arch.) to accommodate

10

darkness

11

heaven-sent child (in answer to a Shinto or Buddhist prayer); child (e.g. of an era); product

1

event

1

outset; start; beginning

1

main character

1

openly (unashamedly) in broad daylight

1

to despise; to scorn; to look down on

2

counting backwards; calculating backwards; inverse operation

1

to go to meet (someone); to go to pick up

4

long distance; long haul; long-distance race

1

physical ability

5

smoothly; swiftly

1

this sort of; of this kind; of the sort; such

1

to complete decisively; to do to completion

3

sentiment; sentimentality

2

what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels

6

brilliant; bright; dazzling

1

deep inside; innermost place

2

highway; main road; the right road; internal medicine (in Chinese medical practice)

1

as long as time allows; whenever one has the time; as time permits

1

black hood

1

to bear; to shoulder

1

fiercely; ferociously; furiously; resolutely

2

noisy; confused; uproarious

1

to bring (someone) back home; to take (someone) back home

1

needing care (of a person); needing to be looked after; troublesome; annoying; difficult

1

noninclusion in a team; not being chosen to play

1

to snatch (and run); to carry off; to swipe; to scoop up (and remove; sand, earth, etc.)

2

somersault; returning from a destination right after arriving there; non-stop round trip; abrupt change of direction

1

winding; meandering; wriggling; wiggling; waving; swaying

2

to writhe (in pain); to be in agony; to be anguished; to be agonized; to be troubled

2

prince; duke

1

early afternoon

1

to carry (something) under cover; to carry concealed

1