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| temperature just below the boiling point | simmer |
| to be thrown off balance or fall back | reel |
| handle clumsily | fumble |
| to twist, as in pain, struggle, or embarrassment | writhe |
1.  a mannequin; 2. a man short in stature | manikin |
| arising from impulse; spontaneous and unthinking | instinctive |
| to fall straight down; plunge | plummet |
| to wave or swing vigorously; thrash | flail |
| 1. an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion; 2. a ghost or an apparition | phantom |
| the act or an instance of breathing out | exhalation |
| to make impure or unclean by contact or mixture | contaminate |
| to remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air | hover |
| a bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere | meteor |
| an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative | musk |
| on guard; watchful | wary |
| happening, existing, or done at the same time | simultaneous |
| 1. a form or part that is folded or coiled; 2. a complication of form or structure; 3. one of the convex folds of the surface of the brain. | convolution |
| devastation; ruin | desolation |
| an Old Testament book consisting of reflections on the vanity of human life | Ecclesiastes |