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plaster figure (bust)

4

creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring

2

pale; pallid; wan; pasty

2

openly (unashamedly) in broad daylight

1

to go past (a place or thing); to go beyond

1

to scoff; to laugh at; to make fun of; to ridicule; to jeer at

1

what?!; what did you say?!; why?; what for?; anyone; anything

2

white asparagus

1

plaster; gypsum; calcium sulphate (sulfate)

3

accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable

1

beckoning

1

to turn toward; to look (up, down, etc.); to face (e.g. east) (of a building, window, etc.); to look out on; to point (of an arrow, compass needle, etc.); to be suited to

8

to touch; to feel; to get involved (with); to approach; to be harmful to; to hinder

1

to distract

1

to breathe out; to breathe; to tell (a lie); to use (foul language); to vomit; to throw up

2

tension; mental strain; nervousness

3

trick that may deceive a child; transparent ploy; mere child's play; kid stuff; puerile trick

1

justice; right; righteousness; correct meaning; correct explanation

1

activist

1

whether or not (in phrases like "I don't know whether or not I can come")

2

temple (side of head)

2

desperation; despair; self-abandonment

1

-like; -looking; -looked; tending to ...

1

to be sweaty

1

artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)

2

to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for

1

vein

1

elasticity; resilience; flexibility; adaptability

2

fat; grease; blubber; lard; suet

2

the very thing; itself

1

gum; rubber; eraser; condom

2

difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect

1

artificial; man-made; imitation; synthetic

1

century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time

3

dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass

1

to be seized with fear; to be intimidated; to lose one's nerve; to be frightened; to get cold feet; to chicken out

1

it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...

3

instant death

1

smuggling; bootlegging; illicit trade

1

to be blinded by greed

1

trap

1

extent to which (something) is true or false; whether or not (something) is true

1

to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved

4

to approach (one's) death; to face (one's) death

1

to lie down; to stretch out; to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait

1

human bones

1

pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely

3

South Pole; the Antarctic; Antarctica

1

being frozen in ice

1

human body

1