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soft voice

1

painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh

6

way of solving (a problem); solution

1

boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. debate); excitement; soaring (prices); shooting up

1

further; above; anymore

3

to express (in words); to confess

1

vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology

1

meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up

1

whispering; murmuring; subdued

1

I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal

5

to glare at; to scowl at

2

anyone; anybody; everyone; whoever

1

red face

1

to throw violently against; to slam against; to strike; to thrust at someone (e.g. a letter)

2

dull (e.g. a knife); blunt; thickheaded; obtuse; dull (sound, color, etc.); dim (light)

1

to feel goodwill (towards); to wish someone well; to have a strong liking (for); to be emotionally involved

1

perhaps; probably; generous; many; much

1

to form; to shape; to make; to mold; to mould; to build up

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 get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)

2

mask; disguise; guise; mask

1

cool-headed; level-headed; hard-headed

1

to be estranged

1

membrane; film

1

distance; interval; gap; difference; estrangement

1

to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal

1

intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy

2

to pile up; to make a heap; to lay (e.g. bricks); to acquire (e.g. experience); to build (a reputation)

2

definite; final; decisive; conclusive

1

cannot be undone; can't be recovered from

1

line

1

to jump; to leap; to break up; to close; to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)

3

to hold a thing in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to embrace (e.g. a baby); to take upon oneself; to be saddled with

2

to interrupt; to obstruct (a view, someone's way, etc.); to block (light, wind, etc.); to intercept; to cut off

2

skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery

1

every last one; one and all; from A to Z; as soon as; right after; no sooner (than)

3

at least; at most; (even) just

2

to smoke (e.g. fire); to billow smoke; to smoulder; to be hazy; to look dim

1

to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside

2

sanity; consciousness; soberness

1

out-of-place; inappropriate; sticking out like a sore thumb

1

to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with

1

wondrous; marvellous; uncanny; like a charm

1

horizontal; level; even

1

ripple (on water); wavelets; ripple (e.g. of uneasiness); unrest; disturbance

1

beyond one's control; nothing one can do

1

ground; earth's surface

2

chorus; singing in a chorus

1

to cool down; to get cold; to cool off (excitement, temper, etc.); to subside; to be cold (eyes, expression, etc.); to be composed

2

chill; the shivers; shivering fit; cold; coldness; cold air

1