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staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

3

seashell; shell

1

to sleep together (for a man and a woman); to bring one's bodies together (e.g. for warmth)

1

being able to do as one pleases; doing at will; pothook

1

tasting (food or drink) for poison; checking the taste (of a dish); seeing how something tastes

1

close combat; close(-quarter) fighting; in-fighting

2

disgraceful; shameful

1

comparing and adjusting; reconciling; lapping; precision surface finishing; margination

1

to rub together; to reconcile (ideas, proposals, plans); to compare and adjust

6

to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to entangle; to trap; to brush out (e.g. dust, fur, plaque); to extract

1

ostentation; display

4

superiority complex; sense of superiority

2

index; index number; exponent (e.g. in floating-point representation); characteristic

1

sticky; thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied); all over (pasting, stamping, etc.); clinging (e.g. of a person); following around

2

(another person's) younger sister

2

dear; beloved

1

sweet (taste); luscious; sweet (melody, dream, etc.); delightful; pleasant

5

innocent (esp. of a girl); naive; virgin; maiden; young striped mullet

1

opinion; point of view

1

catastrophe; cataclysm; collapse (of a relationship); breakup; split (friends, lovers, etc.)

1

difficulty; trouble

5

to be out of breath

1

commotion; stir

1

to ring an alarm bell; to sound a warning; to blow a whistle; to warn

1

to raise one's voice; to shout

2

to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)

5

each person

1

tales of one's travels

6

drinking party; get-together

3

feminine; womanly; female

2

to like too much; to like to excess; to adore

1

to answer a question

1

to top up (drinks, water, rice, etc.); to replenish

3

safety; welfare; well-being

3

to all come in (e.g. teeth); to all come out (e.g. seedlings, flowers)

2

to be heart-warming

1

feeling keenly; fully realizing

2

to become desperate; to give way to despair

3

privacy

2

crossly; angrily; strongly smelling; reeking

1

protrusion; projection; hors d'oeuvre; appetizer; frontal thrust out (winning technique); pushing one's opponent out of the ring

1

to lean against; to recline on

1

hair of the dog; morning drink to get rid of a hangover

1

empty stomach; hunger

2

leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war); departure; setting out; starting a new life; starting life anew

1

popular product

3

merrymaking; high jinks; drunken revelry; spree

1

salty (taste); briny

2

rustic; rude; vulgar; rough

7

shoulders; body; honour; honor; prestige

1