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to ward off (e.g. an attack); to fend off (e.g. a question); to elude; to evade; to dodge; to turn aside (e.g. a joke)

4

to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of

1

true character; true heart; true spirit

1

affair; state; verdict; sentence; directions; orders

1

to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten

9

pit of the stomach; solar plexus

4

pommel

1

to drive in (e.g. nail, stake); to hammer in; to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to input (data)

2

fainting in agony

1

to attack; to assault; to assail

3

number (in a series); (one's) turn; watch; guard; rank; standing; bout

3

cheerful; jovial; weather; season; spirit of yang

1

kick

1

to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades)

2

to hit hard; to punch hard; to give a hard blow; to wallop; to sock

3

as if; as it were; as though; right then; just then; at that moment

2

to take advantage of one's carelessness; to perform a surprise attack

1

to beat someone to the punch; to get the drop on (someone); to forestall

2

blow; shock; strike; batting

1

certain; sure; definite; reliable; sound; solid

3

to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)

1

idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish

5

having no choice; at a loss for what to do; at one's wits' end

1

faint; swoon

4

to stop walking; to pause

2

predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy

1

before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares

8

to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to spoil (of food); to go bad; to perish

1

to (do) like this

1

intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy

1

sometimes; often

1

to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate

2

freely; right and left; as one pleases

3

to move around

5

to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric

1

everybody; every last one of them; all

2

cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky

1

have-nots

1

jealousy; envy

1

unproductive; counterproductive

1

break in the deadlock

1

increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

1

to go away; to become more distant; to fade away; to be estranged

1

knee strike; kneeing

3

remnant; residue; remaining; left-over

1

view; prospect; outlook; viewing platform; overlook

2

to become better; to improve

1

skill; dexterity; master hand

7

in an instant; in a flash; right away; immediately

1

impossible; unlikely; improbable

1