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to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted

5

(distinction of) sex; gender

1

amnesty; pardon

2

meritorious deed; services

1

jue (ancient 3-legged Chinese wine pitcher, usu. made of bronze); peerage (hereditary title bestowed by the emperor)

2

to draw an arc (e.g. with a compass); to describe an arc (e.g. through the air); to form an arc

2

risky; dangerous; insecure

1

charitable person; philanthropist; volunteer; supporter

1

charitable person; philanthropist

1

to win; to gain; to earn; to spread (one's name, etc.)

1

orphan; person without friends

1

poor people; the poor

3

relief; aid; help; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace

1

poorhouse; almshouse; workhouse

1

to prepare; to provide; to set up; to establish; to organize

6

fine fellow

1

to plunder; to grab; to snatch

5

substantial; real (as opposed to nominal)

3

to pledge allegiance; to swear an oath of allegiance; to take an oath of allegiance

2

how many people

3

strategy; artifice

9

scruff of the neck

1

tremendous; immense; enormous; colossal; stupendous; huge

3

immersing oneself in; being absorbed in; devoting oneself to; giving oneself up entirely to

8

secondary; of secondary importance

1

debauchee; profligate; fast liver; philanderer

1

to do by the use of

1

troublesome; annoying; complicated

1

to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that

1

important; significant; precious; valuable; careful

1

inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity

1

science; to think about scientifically; to think in terms of science

1

mathematics

1

astronomy

1

science; learning; scholarship; arts and sciences; academic pursuits

2

a certain ...; some ...

11

art; the arts

2

music

5

desire; appetite; lust

2

to intertwine; to become entangled; to get tangled (together); to become intertwined (of matters, interests, etc.); to become connected; to become linked

3

innocent; chaste; naive; pure; unmixed; genuine

1

loyalty; sincerity; allegiance; fidelity; integrity

11

to inlay; to set; to stud (e.g. star-studded sky); to enchase (something) with; to mount (gems)

1

reason; grounds; circumstances

1

malice; malicious intent; intent to kill

1

to paint over; to paint out; to fill in; to cover completely (with paint)

1

drama; play; powerful drug

6

darkness

2

to swim; to struggle through (a crowd); to make one's way through the world; to get along (in life); to totter; to lose one's balance

7

complicated and mysterious

2