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vicarious experience

2

feeling of alienation

2

statue; picture; picture revealing character

1

to strain (one's stomach); to bear down (during childbirth); to push down

1

poor hearing

1

to hold (someone) down; to pin down; to wrestle to the ground

1

to be used to; to get accustomed to; to train; to discipline; to tack (in needlework); to baste

1

revolving door

1

failure story; horror story

1

closely (sticking, clinging, etc.); tightly

1

to be shut; to close; to be locked; to tighten; to be tightened; to become sober

1

brilliant; radiant; bright; sparkling

1

small child; pipsqueak; short person; midget; small animal; runt

2

writing; composition; essay; sentence

10

to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue

1

good performance; good work; great success

1

calm before a storm; lull before the storm

1

racing (of an engine); spinning one's wheels; running idle; fruitless effort; going nowhere; going round in circles

1

zip fastener; zipper; zip; chuck (device for holding a workpiece in a lathe or a tool in a drill)

1

opposite side; other side; other party

1

quay; wharf; jetty; wall-like shoreline; cliff wall

1

fighting back; returning fire; counter-attack; responding to an attack; accepting a challenge

1

going into battle; departure for the front

4

championship; title (of champion)

1

emission; emanation; letting out (feelings); venting; divergence (of light); divergence

3

a few minutes later; after a few minutes

1

heaps of bodies and streams of blood; fierce battle

2

megaphone

1

descending (mountain)

3

children's game similar to Statues or Red Light Green Light; Bodhidharma fell down

1

riding ground; racecourse; racetrack

1

to make sure of the truth

1

to narrow (e.g. eyes)

1

alteration; falsification; faking

2

taking advantage of (an opportunity); jumping on the bandwagon; taking passage (in); getting a lift; getting a ride

6

trompe l'oeil

1

to become complicated

1

to be charmed by

1

company; friendship; association; society; acquaintance

1

to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order

1

timid; fainthearted

1

(dragging a large or heavy item) slowly; (falling) little by little; (slipping) gradually; on and on; while putting off; with a slurp

1

rope

2

muzzling (a person); preventing (a person) from revealing something; silencing (a person); murdering (a person) to prevent them from revealing something

1

measure; step; dealing with; medical treatment

2

in spite of; regardless of

1

continuation; continuance; going on; resuming

3

feeling that something has come too late

2

daring; fearless; audacious; bold; dauntless; daredevil

1

warming (limbering) up; warming-up exercises

1