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theory

leading

disgrace

worry

narrow

persistence

yielding

to yield

bending

geotropism

quibble

to be reasonable

bending from the hips with the legs straight and head nearly to the ground

bend forward

retroversion of the uterus

phototropism

retroflexion

tropism

to find an excuse

argumentative

robust

tedious

quibbler

elasticity

elbow

Viennese oyster (sexual position)

without any reason

sophistry

buckling

refractometer

killing time

law of refraction

servile submission

inflected form

inflected language

crookedness

dorsiflexion

refractive index

refractive error

crouched burial

plantar flexion

flexor (muscle)

day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)

humiliating

tenacity

indefatigability

carefree

carefree

angle of refraction

double refraction

sense of humiliation

to bow (of one's back, e.g. due to age)

to stoop

to stoop

to yield

flexibility

rugged

gloomy

axis of refraction

narrow-minded

sophist

sophism

one can give a plausible argument for anything

refracting telescope

servile

flexor tendon

bowed tendon

hakama

bending and stretching

wolverine (Gulo gulo)

bending