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ominous atmosphere; ghostly air; weird air; unearthly atmosphere

6

foothold; footing; toehold; stepping stone

2

magic; sorcery; incantation

1

to read (a book); to open (a book) to read; to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)

1

psychic; medium

4

prophet; predictor; prognosticator

2

person with supernatural power; person capable of extrasensory perception

1

religious leader; religious figure; religious practitioner

1

to adhere to; to stick to; to keep close to; to go along with; to get involved with; to be thick with

2

(political) administration; political power

2

zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)

3

appearance; expression; manifestation

1

sufficiency

4

end; final; end of life; death; never; not at all

1

the Sheep (eighth sign of the Chinese zodiac); the Ram; hour of the Sheep (around 2pm, 1-3pm, or 2-4pm); south-southwest; sixth month of the lunar calendar

1

must not; do not

1

other people's affairs; someone else's problem

1

to crumple (up); to wrinkle; to rub thoroughly; to massage (esp. in sexual contexts)

3

to run over (with a vehicle); to knock down

6

to covet; to crave; to indulge in; to do ceaselessly; to eat greedily; to devour

1

to slurp; to sip (loudly); to sniffle; to sniff

1

one scene (in play)

1

supermarket

1

cling film; plastic wrap; food wrap

1

supply; provision; service; supply

3

chicken; coward; scaredy-cat; chicken

1

mass production

1

space-time; spacetime

2

severe; harsh; rigorous; trenchant; scathing; sharp

1

red tide

1

bacteria; bacillus; germ

1

cell membrane

1

vine; creeper

2

tropics

1

tree; shrub; bush

1

to hang over; to cover; to lie over; to fall on one's shoulders; to become one's responsibility; to become a burden

1

forest; woods

2

subterranean rumbling; earth tremor

2

vivid; striking

7

ostrich (Struthio camelus)

1

meat eating; eating of meat; meat diet; carnivorous

1

wasteland; wilderness; deserted land; prairie; vast plain; wilds

1

real thing; original; actual

1

pictorial book; picture book; illustrated reference book; identification manual; field guide

1

inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front; wrong way round

4

blinding someone's eyes (to make an escape); smoke screen; distraction; magic (trick); sleight of hand

1

jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)

1

directly opposite; right in front; middle of the forehead; helmet front

1

dark (color); concentrated; thick

1

red; red color; communist; socialist; left-wing

1