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detonation by contact; contact detonation; touching off (something); triggering; sparking

1

itching to do something; impatient; sorely tempted; eager

1

staying up late; sitting up late at night; keeping late hours

1

intermission (between acts); interlude

3

dawn; daybreak

2

power; might; authority; influence

2

as always; as ever; though it's always the case

3

miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic

3

to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)

1

dawn; daybreak

3

coupled with; together

1

feeling; sensation; mood

2

standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability

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of all people

1

boo-hoo; boo-hoo-hoo

1

to hang; to droop; to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status); to confer; to drip; to ooze; to leave behind (at death)

1

all kinds of things; various things; large number of people

2

to crush (with the weight of misfortune)

1

goodness; good

1

will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope

2

to steel oneself to; to brace oneself

1

weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)

1

to trust; to relax one's guard (around)

1

good morning

1

healing; soothing; therapy; comfort; solace

1

while it may be true that; just because; nevertheless; not necessarily

1

to think (something) is improper; to question; to have a problem with

1

darkness

1

figure of a person; figures of people; shadow of a person

3

thick (paper, cloth, etc.); heavy

1

traditional short winter coat resembling a haori without gussets; livery coat

1

to let down one's hair; to undo hair

1

lying face down; lying on one's face; placing upside down; placing face down

2

to catch a cold

1

to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to blackmail; to extort; to shake down

1

suddenly (hit); with a slap; sharply (glance, glare, etc.); fiercely; suddenly; all of a sudden

1

to give (as a gift); to present; to confer; to bestow; to award

1

just before; on the verge of; on the brink of; just in front of; just ahead of

1

talking in one's sleep; somniloquy; nonsense; gibberish

1

to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)

1

fiancé; fiancée

1

marriage; matrimony

1

to bud; to sprout; to arise; to begin to grow

2

small restaurant; eating house

1

fumbling; groping

2

prosperity; flourishing; thriving

1

to come into contact with; to touch (each other); to have a brush with

2

bed; berth; crib; cot; bedroom

2

body

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I (alphabet letter); i; I (symbol for iodine)

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