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promptly; quickly

2

to take offense; to take offence; to get angry; to lose one's temper

1

to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute

1

to check someone's temperature

1

guidepost; signpost; guide; manual; tiger beetle (esp. the Japanese tiger beetle, Cicindela japonica)

5

self-introduction

4

there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)

1

to fold one's arms; to link arms with someone

6

amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute

1

defect of memory

4

circuit (electric); cycle (e.g. Krebs cycle)

1

mundane; routine; everyday; unremarkable; common; day-to-day

1

off the mark; off base; misdirected; irrelevant

3

to look young; to seem young

2

to age; to grow old

8

to make a firm resolution

1

to look (stare) back at (somebody); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to look back (behind oneself)

1

piece (in shogi, chess, etc.); (arch.) horse; (arch.) foal; bridge (of a violin, etc.)

1

pus; corruption; rot; evils

1

to talk on and on; to rattle on; to keep on talking (without pause)

1

flatly rejecting; curtly refusing; beating easily; defeating handily; a kick

1

single cell; isolation cell; solitary cell; solitary confinement cell

10

to shut up; to imprison

1

selfish

1

to ask a big favour; to ask unreasonable things; to be unreasonable

1

several years

3

damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy; depressing

1

moisture; humidity; dampness

1

gloomy; melancholy; dreary; depressed; dismal

1

to torment; to punish; to treat harshly; to beat up; to give a drubbing; to cause damage to

1

reduction; curtailment

2

way; course; the only way

1

continuation

1

abandoning (hope, plans); giving up

1

to compare and contrast two alternatives; to weigh the relative merits of A and B; to weigh one's options; to try to have it both ways; to try to sit on two stools

1

apology

3

wearing armour (armor); counter for suits of armour

1

to do; to have sexual intercourse; to give; to present; to award

1

alarm; warning

2

at first; in the beginning; originally

2

to run past; to run by; to go too far ahead

1

puzzle

1

time warp; time travel

68

to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse; to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted

3

one's way; one's path

7

(sound of a) gunshot; (gun) report

5

to mishear; to hear wrongly; to misunderstand

1

to erase; to drown out (e.g. a voice); to make disappear

1

to run about trying to escape

1

Montauk Monster

3