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to push through (a crowd, vegetation, etc.)

1

questions and answers; dialogue

1

unprecedented; never happened before; first time in history

1

dainty; delicate; slender; fragile (e.g. furniture); delicate; frail

6

one turn; one round; (a) size; to go around; to make a circuit; twelve years

6

optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion

1

lisping; poorly expressed; unclear (wording); imprecise (expression)

1

to sob

2

to press a question; to cross-examine

1

bullying; teasing

1

clue; lead; key; handhold; hold

2

in order to; for the purpose of; must; should

1

soft voice

1

to put on (clothing, esp. new)

1

electric current

1

chill; shakes; ague

1

to withdraw from (a deal); to wash one's hands of; to lead by the hand

1

to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe

7

to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled

3

sobbing; sob; weeping

1

beast; brute; animal

3

blood vessel; vein

5

cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible

1

to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)

1

to play a leading role; to play a central part

1

dome

1

aura

5

to be overawed; to be overpowered; to lose the mental battle

1

to hang one's head; to look down; to cast one's eyes downward

2

just before; on the verge of; on the brink of; just in front of; just ahead of

2

grabbing hold; eagle grip; tight hold

1

to cut into (a line, conversation, etc.); to force oneself into (e.g. a crowd); to wedge oneself into; to fall below (of stock prices, sales, etc.); to drop below

3

to drive away; to order off; to chase away; to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)

1

to take into one's possession; to receive; to take into one's care (e.g. person, pet); to take custody of; to leave; to go away

1

return; welcome home

2

blocking the way; standing in the way

1

to stand in the way; to bar someone's way; to block the way

2

middle-aged woman

1

maid

1

make-up; makeup; cosmetics

1

tired feeling; feeling of exhaustion; sense of fatigue; fatigability

1

to be prominent; to be conspicuous

2

overall; on the whole

1

to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in

2

grim face

1

to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

1

hectic; bewildering; bustling; dizzy

2

disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem

1

being ...

2

harvest; crop; ingathering; fruits (of one's labors); gain; result

1