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caricature; cartoon; comics

1

skillful; adroit; craft; craftsmanship; plot; scheme

4

early on; earlier on; from early

1

expert; knowledgeable person; authority (on a subject)

1

smiling with pity

1

guest seating (e.g. theater, stadium); passenger seat (e.g. taxi); audience

1

with a smile

1

taxi

2

people

1

(nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive; proper place to die; dilemma; predicament

4

climax

1

regarding oneself (as); fancying oneself (as); seeing oneself (as); considering oneself (to be); pretension

1

indictment; prosecution; complaint

1

hostility; animosity; enmity

2

rough or steep path

1

impossible; unthinkable; unimaginable

1

influence; effect; to influence; to affect; to have an influence on

2

car; automobile; motorcar; motor vehicle; auto

1

operation; functioning; running

3

unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident

1

on the road; on the street; in the street; on the way

2

to go down and stand; to alight; to get down

1

wearily

1

national (e.g. hero, pastime, consensus); relevant to all citizens; popular on a national level

1

passage in a discourse; one section; one scene

1

urban transport; urban transit

1

artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made

1

person with a lot of experience; old hand; veteran (in a particular field)

1

unfriendly

1

forcibly; against one's will

1

formal; stiff; pompous; stern; solemn; grave

1

ahem

1

therefore; for that reason; such being the case

1

magnetism

1

route; road; distance travelled in a day; one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s)

1

movement of goods

1

proud; boastful; bragging; conceited

1

laughing matter

1

cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull

2

devil; demon; Satan; the Devil; Māra; evil spirits or forces that hinder one's path to enlightenment

1

sound of footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching

1

stealthy; secret

1

decision; judgment; resolution

1

conclusion

3

to open one's eyes wide (in anger, surprise, etc.); to goggle at

1

two (long cylindrical things)

1

style; way; shape; form; appearance; state

3

errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit

1

skip (bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot); skipping (over); skip (captain of a curling team); skipper

1

to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

1