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(political) administration; political power

3

advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful

1

direction; orientation; bearing; course (e.g. of action)

21

to wash away

1

slope; inclination; tendency; trend; slope (of a linear function)

2

politics and economics

2

article; news story; report; account

3

poor; meagre; meager; feeble; scanty; shabby

4

to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death

2

from the beginning; from the first; all along; of course

1

sometimes; often

1

objective

6

to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully

4

pro-government newspaper; newspaper that curries favour with the government

1

menial; meanness; servility; abject

2

servile submission; subservience

3

convention; tired tradition; old custom

1

settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)

1

democratic state

1

president (of a nation); big man; boss; buddy

1

remark; statement; discourse

1

anachronism

1

treatment; service; handling; management

3

head; leading spirit

1

air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all

2

to wrap up; to pack; to cover; to envelop; to conceal (a feeling); to hide

3

the press; (in the) newspapers

1

case; situation

15

nerve; nerves; sensitivity

2

target; object (of worship, study, etc.); subject (of taxation, etc.)

4

individual; private person; personal; private

5

minus; negative (quantity); deficit; disadvantage; drawback; negative (ion, pole, growth, image, effect, etc.)

1

be considered; be deemed; be thought to be

2

one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself

10

social activity

2

house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name

10

occupation; stationing

1

point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead

2

authority; power; influence

5

home country; one's own country; suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state); colonizing country; country of one's ancestors; this country

1

expert; knowledgeable person; authority (on a subject)

2

that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such

6

state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances

4

criticism; critique; review; commentary

3

without

2

mental; spiritual; emotional

5

firm; unshakeable; resolute

1

English-language newspaper

1

to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge

10

Stars and Stripes (US flag); Stars and Stripes (newspaper)

2