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Caught in the Rain

1

views; opinion; discernment; pride; self-respect

1

hatred; abhorrence; loathing; detestation

3

who; what kind of person

5

conquest (of a difficulty, illness, handicap, etc.); overcoming; bringing under control; subjugation; victory over

1

to be satisfied (with an explanation, apology, etc.); to be happy

1

to fade; to discolour; to discolor

1

sleek; smooth; thin (of a liquid); without hesitation or delay

1

to rustle; to sway; to stir; to flutter

1

happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness

1

to shrug one's shoulders

3

philosophical

1

simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated

2

demise

1

preliminary announcement; previous announcement; portent; sign; forewarning

1

frame (e.g. of film, panel in a comic, etc.); scene; time block (e.g. of a class schedule)

1

dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.)

1

back (of a chair)

1

on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead

3

moving about; stirring about

1

narrow; thin (sized); slender

2

to sew on

1

more than anything; above all else

1

to take the form (of); to assume a shape

1

to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake

1

difficult to ...; hard to ...

1

handicap

1

on the occasion of

1

to be jealous; to be envious

3

work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income

1

intermittent

1

to stab to death

1

to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)

4

lukewarm; tepid; lenient

1

liquid

1

to grow weak; to become weak; to lose strength

1

increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

1

seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand

1

palimpsest

1

to inform; to notify; to know; to reign

1

to be born again; to make a fresh start in life

1

belonging to (a group, organization, etc.); affiliation (with); being attached to; being under the control of

2

trial manufacture; experiment; test piece; prototype

2

domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)

3

emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness

2

to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

1

at that time; in those days; at that moment; then

5

turbidity; cloudiness (of a liquid); opacity; disorder; chaos

1

cold; chill; cold weather; cold wave; cold air

1

rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative (photography); producing a negative from a positive

1