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

3

torture; pains (of hell)

1

planning; scheming; maneuvering; manoeuvring

1

open secret

1

sadness and gloom

2

unbroken; endless; continuous

1

secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings

4

three generations; three periods; third generation

2

Five Dynasties (of China; 907-979)

1

role of a villain (film, drama, etc.); bad-guy role; social outcast role

1

to select; to pick out

2

purification ceremony (performed with water); ritual purification; ablutions

6

substitution; material; price; margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.); area required for something; (arch.) shiro (unit of land area equal to one-fiftieth of a tan; approx. 19.83 m.sq.)

2

reign; being on the throne

2

scandal; deplorable event

2

mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy

1

imbecility; feeblemindedness; dark

1

to wash away; to rinse off

2

justification; warrant

1

career; carrier (disease, signal, warship, etc.); carrier; telephone company; career government employee

1

without leaving any trace

4

pulverization; pulverisation; smashing; demolishing

5

same family (race, tribe)

1

another style; another school (of thought, karate, etc.)

1

to shun; to avoid; to ostracize; to neglect; to distance oneself from; to give the hard shoulder

1

term of office; tenure; incumbency

1

to leave the government service

1

vanguard; advance-guard point; advance detachment; vanguard; pioneer; avant-garde

3

most (numerous); largest (number of)

1

sanctions; punishment

1

to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort

2

freedom; free man; free woman

1

to begin; to set about; to start

1

sentence; verdict; pronouncement

1

to consign to oblivion

3

a reclusive life; living secluded from the world; leading a sequestered life

1

selfish; egoist; (arch.) self-indulgent; (arch.) wilful; (arch.) willful

5

countless; incalculable

5

embodiment; manifestation; materialization; materialisation; expression; indication

1

imitation

1

shake; shock

2

to aggravate; to complicate; to make worse

1

to instigate; to tempt; to entice; to incite

1

to make a mistake (in); to commit an error; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to mislead; to misguide

2

reason of being; raison d'être; meaning of one's existence

1

disappearance; vanishing; loss; dying away; wearing off

1

lapse; abatement; invalidation; expiration; expiry; becoming void

1

to be born (with); to be born (to be); to be destined

3

to be turned inside out; to betray; to double-cross; to break into falsetto; to crack into falsetto

1

change; conversion; transformation; transformation

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