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to speak; to talk; to mediate; to act as a go-between; to put in a good word (for someone)

1

to shift one's attention to; to shift one's focus on

1

sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly

1

irritating; aggravating; upsetting

1

desperate; frantic; excited; worked up; heated; eager

1

to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself

1

suspicious behavior; acting suspiciously

1

to love

1

inexperienced; immature; green; grassy-smelling; smelling of raw vegetation

3

young girl; lass; adolescent female

3

woman who forced her husband into marriage

1

to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)

1

to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)

2

drop (e.g. of water); drip

1

to scatter; to spread

1

dirty; filthy; disordered; messy; indecent (language, etc.); dirty

2

half step; half a step

1

to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate

3

fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred

1

sanity; consciousness; soberness

1

true character; true heart; true spirit

1

question; query

1

letter (of alphabet); character

1

money-making; earning money

1

relations with women

1

rotting; spoiling; decaying; rotten; worthless; paltry

1

first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all

1

having children; attempting to conceive

1

failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy

1

to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged

2

purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention

3

cutting a person down (without a second thought); sacrificing; throwing to the wolves; omission; rounding down (e.g. fractions); truncation

1

to dirty one's hands

1

dilemma; predicament

1

to drive away; to order off; to chase away; to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)

1

devastating; catastrophic; crushing

1

bow (weapon); archery; bow (for a violin, etc.)

1

to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

4

top-heavy; big-headed; overly-theoretical

2

to all appearances; no matter how you look at it

1

good-for-nothing; worthless

2

denouncing; calling (e.g. somebody a thief); branding (as)

1

anger; rage; fury; wrath; indignation

1

just a little

2

to fade; to become dim

1

faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre

4

to blush; to redden

1

but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding

7

characteristic; like oneself; worthy of oneself

1

little girl; maiden; young lady; female usually between 7 and 18 years old

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