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embarrassed; ashamed

3

digital divide

1

old-fashioned; behind the times; out-of-date; antiquated

5

ill-natured; mean; nasty; sadistic; cruel; mean-spirited

2

scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer

2

to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking

1

expressing one's mind; speaking out

5

to recall; to remember

3

to jump on someone's (verbal) mistake; to trip someone up; to find fault with something someone says

5

quite; utterly; really; completely

6

passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); pass (for admission, transport, etc.); ticket; pass (of a ball); pass (ceding one's turn); giving (something) a pass; pass (ceding one's turn after there are no more useful moves)

4

five

1

calmly; coolly; primly

1

to worry

2

time warp; time travel

2

medicine; medical science

3

increase; rise; growth; addition; increment

1

abhorrent; abominable; detestable; ominous; inauspicious; unlucky

2

cruel and heartless; merciless; implacable

1

opportunity; chance; trigger; cause

1

figurative

1

putting an end to; bringing to a close; person who opens and closes the curtains (in a theatre)

2

physiological; physical; visceral; instinctive; in one's guts

1

being prepared for a theoretical (ideological) argument; being armed with theoretical backing

1

full operation

2

cruelty; coldheartedness; relentless; ruthless

1

accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable

7

immoral

1

poor health; ill health; unhealthy

1

to put into effect; to put into practice

3

feasibility

1

to pull in; to take for oneself; to tuck up (one's sleeves)

1

curtain rail

4

to hang (e.g. oneself)

1

suicide by hanging; hanging oneself

2

looking away; looking aside; outsider's perspective; observer's view

1

comedian; actor who plays comic roles; figure of fun; laughing stock

2

cough; ahem

2

looking for something; searching for something; object being sought

1

preaching to the deaf; (lit.) chanting the nembutsu into a horse's ear

1

seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words

7

horse; horse racing; promoted bishop; knight (court card in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta)

1

restive horse; runaway horse; out of control horse

1

utter indifference; talking to the wall; praying to deaf ears

1

to substitute for; to stand in for; to fill in for

2

smoothly; swiftly

2

to lie down (and rest)

3

elasticity

4

supply; provision; raising; procurement

5

substitute

2