(beheading) block; guillotine; scaffold
education; enlightenment; civilization; civilisation; indoctrination
free (of charge); gratuitous
appendix; supplement; annex; extra (of a newspaper or magazine)
to fire from a job; to dismiss; to discharge; to behead
absurd; foolish; stupid; silly; nonsense; ludicrous
as much as possible; unbeatably; unsurpassably
to torment; to punish; to treat harshly; to beat up; to give a drubbing; to cause damage to
pleasure; supreme pleasure obtained by freeing oneself from earthly desires
depiction; description; portrayal
to remain; to be left over; to be in excess; to be too many
close (e.g. of business); leaving (e.g. school); being outdone; compare unfavourably (with); closing price (stockmarket); sink mark (casting, moulding)
miserable; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; downhearted; dreary
to begin (emphatically); to launch; to embark on
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
reality; actuality; actual conditions; ultimate reality; absolute truth
only; merely; just; at most; no more than
intellectual class; educated class; intelligentsia
one's wife; wife (of somebody below the speaker in rank)
literal meaning (of a word, etc.)
to bawl; to cry; to scream
to wheeze; to breathe with difficulty; to gasp
usual; ordinary; normal; regular; general; common
family-oriented; familial
innocence; being not guilty
China; Han dynasty (China, 202 BCE-220 CE); Han (majority Chinese ethnic group); man
public acknowledgment; public acknowledgement; public recognition; commendation; awarding
subsidy; incentive; bounty
expenditure; disbursement; expenses
legislative bill; measure; agenda item
(satirical) cartoon; caricature; humorous illustration
abuse; ill-treatment; maltreatment; mistreatment; cruelty
mob; the masses; rabble; riffraff
abuser (of a person or animal)