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being put off (by someone's words, behaviour, etc.); being taken aback; recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.); zooming out or pulling the camera back to get a wider image (in film and TV)

1

to start to say; to attempt to say; to be about to say; to speak to; to address

13

to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up

1

graceful; neat

1

oh; yes; huh?; hm?

7

disposition; inclination; characteristic; sexual disposition; fetish

8

shout; cry; outcry; yell; shriek; scream

4

to fill; to become full (of); to wax (of the moon); to rise (of the tide); to flow; to expire (of a period of time)

3

schoolboy; male student

1

monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook

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broom

2

house-cloth; dust cloth

3

schoolgirl; female student

9

leopardess; female leopard

1

to cross one's legs

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talking about one's love interests; girls' talk; gossiping

1

(at the) window

4

gorilla (Gorilla spp., esp. western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla)

3

tobacco; cigarette; cigaret; tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum)

1

to smoke (a cigarette); to behave as ...; to accelerate; to rev up

1

to throw open; to leave open

1

projection

1

to beat to death; to kill

1

shout (of encouragement, etc.); yell (used to time or encourage activity, e.g. "Heave ho!")

4

music room

11

courtyard; quadrangle; middle court

8

cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing

8

written invitation

13

envelope

1

miasma; noxious form of "bad air" formerly believed to cause diseases

1

underground spring; Hades; hell; underworld

1

beckoning

3

horror

1

picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage

2

instability; insecurity; crankiness

1

ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious

1

extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless

5

in the face of; in defiance of

1

black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty

8

hades; realm of the dead

1

hundred days; lengthy time

1

life span

1

to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink

2

fearfully; timidly; nervously; cautiously; gingerly

3

sender

2

good handwriting; skillful penmanship; speedy writing; vigorous writing

1

section (e.g. in a newspaper); column; field (in a form, web page, etc.); blank; handrail; railing

2

habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle

2

negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness

1

evil spirits of rivers and mountains

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