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tap-tap; knock-knock; cough-cough; bark (of a fox); yelp; heavily (e.g. of snow falling)

1

to emit; to spout; to spurt; to boil over

1

waterway; channel; wake (of a ship)

1

rainbow-colored; rainbow-coloured

1

to bend many times; to turn and twist; to zigzag

1

to ooze (out); to seep

2

damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy; depressing

1

thank you; thanks

2

novelist; fiction writer

3

to harbor suspicion; to harbour suspicion

1

literary world; literary circles

3

instinctive; instinctual

2

disharmony; discord; dissonance; incongruity

2

worldwide; global; international; world-famous; world-class

1

standard; basis; criterion; norm; reference; datum

2

walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)

2

again and again; repeatedly

3

new; unused; new

1

origin; root; cause; principle

1

to twist; to turn; to writhe (e.g. in pain); to twist around; to turn in one's seat

1

to use to the full (one's voice, energy, etc.); to muster all of (one's strength, courage, etc.); to summon all of; to exert fully; to strain (one's voice)

1

figure; form; style

1

center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused

4

emphasis; highlight; stress; stressed point

1

sensitivity; susceptibility

2

beyond help; past salvation; incorrigible; irredeemable

1

error; mistake; slip; bug

5

to get stuck in; to be mired in; to be addicted to

2

fresh; new

2

synthesis; coordination; putting together; comprehensive

5

will; will-power

4

by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking

1

objectivity

2

misunderstanding; misapprehension; false impression; to be mistaken; to have the wrong idea

1

thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned

1

dim-witted; airheaded; bird-brained; dim; dullard; blockheaded

1

formalism

1

to shiver; to shake; to quake; to tremble; to quaver; to quiver

1

to knead; to mix with fingers; to quibble; to argue for argument's sake

1

stupidity; silliness; asininity; imbecility; dim-wittedness

1

to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from

1

resentment; indignation; anger

3

to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)

1

to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)

1

humanism

7

(a) step forward

2

to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to

5

Chikamatsu

1

reverberation; swelling (of a hymn); lingering memory; aftertaste; suggestiveness (of a book, poem, etc.)

1

Tamio

1