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hap collapse: an accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life"

stirring collapse: agitating a liquid with an implement; "constant stirring prevents it from burning on the bottom of the pan"; exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions; "a stirring speech"

circumstance collapse: information that should be kept in mind when making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would take"; formal ceremony about important occasions; "pomp and circumstance"; a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity

episode collapse: a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series; a part of a broadcast serial; a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events

mood collapse: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

juncture collapse: an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"; a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made; "at that juncture he had no idea what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"

exposed collapse: not covered with clothing; "her exposed breast"; with no protection or shield; "the exposed northeast frontier"; "open to the weather"; "an open wound"

affair collapse: a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"; a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

susceptible collapse: (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"; easily impressed emotionally

blink collapse: a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly; briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink"

prone collapse: lying face downward; having a tendency (to); often used in combination; "a child prone to mischief"; "failure-prone"

novel collapse: a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"; a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story; pleasantly new or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort"

cognate collapse: a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language; having the same ancestral language; "cognate languages"

motif collapse: a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors; a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music

vignette collapse: a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books); a photograph whose edges shade off gradually

experience collapse: the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities; "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher"; the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"; an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention"; go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"; go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"

fact collapse: a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case"; a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"; a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts"; an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"

denouement collapse: the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; the outcome of a complex sequence of events

adventure collapse: a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

occasion collapse: reason; "there was no occasion for complaint"; an opportunity to do something; "there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill"; the time of a particular event; "on the occasion of his 60th birthday"; give occasion to

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