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looks (esp. of a woman); features; ability; capability; (public) estimation (esp. of a man); credit

2

being lost for words

1

to become settled; to be fixed

3

fundamental; basic

2

binary number system; base-2

1

if I had to say; if pressed (to answer); if I must choose; if I had to choose

1

news; tidings; information; correspondence; letter

1

just one person; only one

2

wearisome; insipid; dull; irksome; wretched; vain

6

involuntary

2

ancient times; distant past; antiquity

1

thump-thump; bang-bang; pit-a-pat; to beat fast (of one's heart); to throb; to pound

6

(not) in any way; (not) at all; (none) whatsoever; what kind of

4

the five viscera and the six internal organs; inside one's body; in one's heart

1

to have a lot on one's shoulders; to bear a lot of responsibility

1

calculating; mercenary; selfish; self-interested

1

sliver of hope; gleam of hope; ray of hope

1

slightest connection; slender connection; sliver (e.g. of hope); one thread

1

in that way; like that

1

cooperative; helpful

1

among (other things); especially; particularly; at the same time; simultaneously; at once

3

falsehood; untruth; lie; fallacy

2

calculation; self-interest; selfishness

2

there's no knowing; there's no telling; it's anyone's guess; who knows?

4

human intellect; knowledge

1

barrier; gate; seki; mutual life

1

self-defense; self-defence

3

all night; throughout the night

2

hindrance; obstacle; harm (to one's health); bad effect; menstruation; period

3

strong spirit; mettle; backbone; guts; fighting spirit

1

harmless; innocuous; safe; benign

1

laying one's head in someone's lap; using someone's lap for a pillow

1

once more; again

1

lawlessness; injustice; wrong; outrageous; lawless; disorderly

1

discrepancy; discord; disagreement; mismatch; dissonance

3

influencing people by one's virtue

1

to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)

3

sleepwalking; somnambulism; noctambulism

1

change in appearance; transformation

2

protecting (someone); defending; standing up for

1

one's duty; vocation

1

extraordinary; exceptional; unprecedented; solecistic; non-standard; irregular

3

huge mound; heap; pile

1

to live through hell; to go to hell and back; to suffer dire straits

1

severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous

3

curtain; curtains

2

sun; sunshine; sunlight

1

crisply; with a crunch; refreshingly; sharply; (sitting) straight

2

empiricism

2

completely; entirely; all; in large amounts; a lot

2