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grand; magnificent; lavish; forceful; powerful; vigorous

8

to celebrate; to congratulate; to present (a gift) in celebration; to drink in celebration; to wish for (a happy future, good fortune, etc.); to pray for

1

leading part; leading actor; leading actress

1

spurious article; forgery; counterfeit; imitation; sham

2

marquis; marquess

13

deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing

9

to get information; to find out; to get wind of

1

only daughter

1

Laura; Lola; Lora; Loura

54

father

33

baton (of command); order; command; direction

4

to allot; to allocate; to supply with; to furnish; to fit to; to fasten to

1

prisoner

2

frontal attack

1

to fold one's arms; to link arms with someone

2

idea; plan; fancy; impulse; thought; whim

1

practice; training; drill; (an) exercise; workout

8

I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality

9

knowing; (an) acquaintance

9

pride; haughtiness

2

it is I who should say so

4

flowery words; rhetorical flourishes

1

equality; equal; same rights; same rank; equivalence

2

standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability

1

to straighten up one's back (e.g. stand up straight, sit up straight); to hold one's head high

6

greeting; a fine thing to say

3

seeing; looking at

2

impostor; imposter; pretender; liar

3

to get along well with; to make a go of it

1

short temper; quick temper; hot temper; impatience; irritability

4

to live; to make a living; to get on with

4

father

29

to make good; to improve; to do often; to be kind to; to treat well

3

at one's feet; underfoot; gait; pace; most recent; current

3

loneliness; desolateness

5

to leave behind

7

to find fault with

2

displeasure; discomfort; unpleasantness; indisposition; ailment

16

capital; funds; seed money; asset

2

wholesale; wholesaling

1

quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty

1

judgement; judgment; connoisseur

1

quick to seize an opportunity

1

customer; client; patron

1

preeminence; excellence; superiority; transcendence

4

ability; capability; skill

4

merchant; trader; expert (in a trade or profession); professional; woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); demimondaine

1

to boost; to force up; to push up

3

first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface

4

to court; to woo; to approach defiantly

2