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showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay

2

generation; the world; the age

1

imperial court; royal court

5

quarter of a century

1

to write (to someone)

2

Sevigne

1

three generations; three periods; third generation

1

pure; genuine; trueborn; natural-born

1

various; varied; diverse; all sorts of

5

when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

1

to write a novel

1

writing; composition; essay; sentence

4

dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish

5

it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that

3

historian

2

novelist; fiction writer

1

to overlook; to fail to notice; to miss (seeing)

1

trifles; minor details

2

painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate

1

to pick up; to pick out

1

to be visible; to be clear; to be evident; to be certain

1

living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet

1

foreign country

4

absurdity; contradiction; incoherence; irrelevance

2

when it comes to ...; concerning; where ... are concerned

2

plum-blossom viewing

1

embarrassing; embarrassed; ashamed; disgraceful; shameful

3

please don't fuss over me; don't go to any trouble; don't bother

1

obstinate; stubborn; obdurate; headstrong; willful; perverse

2

load; heavy burden; encumbrance; heavy freight; heavy responsibility

2

to escape

2

method; process; manner; way; means; technique

1

to boil; to come to a boil; to seethe (with rage, etc.); to be furious

1

to spill; to fall out of; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)

1

iron (Fe); strong and hard (as iron); railway; railway enthusiast

6

Scopas

1

careless; thoughtless; hasty; rash

2

delivering an order; dispatch of an order; messenger; orderly; runner

1

marathon; long-distance race

1

huge win; overwhelming victory

1

information; news; intelligence

2

now that; since; as long as; provided that

1

Greece

2

never again

2

pessimism; disappointment

1

poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite

2

fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)

1

to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)

4

natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder

3

part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty

3