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attentive; cautious; careful; watchful

3

sword wound; sword cut

2

to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)

5

bulldog

2

pathological; morbid; unhealthy; diseased; unwholesome; abnormal

2

tousled; shaggy (hair); scraggly (beard); dishevelled; disheveled; unkempt

1

period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years); apprenticeship; indentureship; indenture

2

Colt

2

short stature

1

to go around; to make a circle around; to surround; to circle; to come around (of a season, anniversary, turn, etc.); to return

10

one may well say so, but ...; even more than

1

true value; real worth

1

expert; skilled hand; person of experience

1

to throw up (e.g. mud); to splash (up); to flip up; to tip up; to raise sharply (e.g. prices); to hike

6

quick firing; rapid firing

2

so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense

1

double; double bed; hotel room with a double bed; double-breasted; double-cuffed; double width (of cloth; usu. 1.42 meters); doubles (e.g. in tennis)

13

one in a million (chance, etc.); one in ten thousand; in the unlikely event that

1

to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with

3

along (a wall, river, railroad tracks, etc.); alongside; following

1

to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)

6

full; wholehearted; utmost; overall width

1

runny-nosed child; sniveler; sniveller; greenhorn; inexperienced person

2

now that; since; so long as; because

3

plan; policy; means; fifth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; right upward flick

2

movement (of one's body); moving about; stirring; acting freely; doing as one pleases

6

to gape; to open one's mouth wide

1

to burst into laughter

3

to tickle; to tickle (one's curiosity, vanity, etc.); to arouse; to make (someone) laugh; to amuse

2

until something reaches the very limit; until the very last minute; up to the breaking point

1

to dodge; to evade; to avoid; to sidestep

22

state of tension

1

to mark the end; to spell the end

3

to feel irritated; to feel offended; to feel angry; to feel sick; to feel nauseous

3

breakup (of a ceremony, wedding, party, meeting, etc.); closure

3

lifespan; life; lifetime; life (of a battery, lightbulb, etc.); service life; end of an object's (useful) life

1

century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time

1

to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)

3

reflected light

1

to jump up; to spring up

3

fool; idiot

1

to lie face-down

1

in a hurry; hurriedly; hastily; helter-skelter; hurry-scurry; in a panic

3

to be conceivable

1

limit; limits; degree; extent; the end; the last; as long as ...

4

chair; seat; stool; post; position; seat

8

to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)

11

to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in

8

to fly in the air

1

ceiling; ceiling (e.g. of share price); ceiling price

15