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to be of benefit; to be useful; to be good for you

3

performance; execution; skill; dexterity; tact

2

satisfactory; decent; good; proper; worthy

1

convenient

2

ill-natured; mean; nasty; sadistic; cruel; mean-spirited

1

first time; first; initial

1

not exactly correct, but pretty close to it; not far off the mark

2

attack; charge; raid

2

cannot be helped; unavoidable

1

tyranny; atrocity

1

they; those guys

2

past tense

3

tsk; tut; shoot; chirp

1

to get irritated

1

clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)

1

to rock; to shake; to swing

2

resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)

1

self-defense

1

keeping an alternative up one's sleeve; two-stage preparation

1

meaningfully (smiling, grinning, etc.); suggestively; broadly; sneeringly

1

nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not

10

taking no notice (of); thinking nothing of; disregarding; not aware of; completely ignoring; being out of consideration

1

dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding

3

alternately; by turns; one after the other

1

to praise extravagantly; to lionize; to lionise; to make much of

3

cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman

1

dwarf planet

1

to be peevish; to sulk; to pout

2

grunt; grumble; pimples; spots; cutting into small pieces; simmering

2

insecurity; carelessness

1

to confuse (someone); to befuddle; to bewilder; to mystify; to throw up a smokescreen; (lit.) to surround with smoke

1

to attract someone's attention; to arouse someone's interest; to sound someone out; to try to find out someone's true feelings; to (discreetly) probe someone's thoughts

1

elevation; rise; improvement; advancement; progress

3

establishing; proving; ascertaining; identifying; confirming

4

due form; official; formality

2

one by one; one after another; successively

1

too much for one to handle; beyond one's capacity; unmanageable; uncontrollable; incorrigible; obstreperous

2

lacking in some desired property (size, usefulness, etc.)

2

sexagenary cycle (60-year cycle of 12 animal zodiac and 5 elements in the traditional Chinese calendar); 12-year Chinese zodiac

1

by-product; spin-off; outgrowth; side effect

1

to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to set free; to release; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)

2

to take on a role; to take part

1

logic; reasoning; argument; line of argument

4

companion; partner; spouse

1

eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)

1

history

1

several hundreds

1

yearly amount

1

to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to

1

elephant (Elephantidae spp.)

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