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pedestal

2

enshrinement; installation (of an image)

2

mysterious; mystical

3

(rock) crystal; high purity quartz

8

useless; worthless; silly; trivial

2

practitioner; specialist; man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai

105

to nail (to something); to nail down; to bang (e.g. one's head); to knock; to throw (at a wall, on the floor, etc.); to fling (at)

2

warning; alarm; alert

6

locked-room murder (e.g. in murder mystery fiction)

1

to react; to respond

1

softly; gently; stealthily; secretly; to leave alone; to leave as it is

3

dilemma; predicament

2

ingenious; skillful; clever; deft; sophisticated

3

short life; short lived

1

roundabout; indirect; circuitous; ignorant (of the world)

4

farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation

3

omniscience and omnipotence

5

reason

1

ignorance; innocence; stupidity

1

doubt; suspicion; fear; apprehension

1

ingenuity; inventiveness; creative originality

2

to accomplish; to finish; to carry through; to follow through

5

black powder; gunpowder

2

gun; firearm; small arms (e.g. rifle, pistol, etc)

33

musketeer

1

gunfighter (esp. in the American Old West); gunslinger; gunman

1

to emphasize; to attach importance to

2

essentially nonexistent; virtually nil

4

to improve one's skill

1

resemblance; similarity; likeness; analogy

2

partial destruction

3

improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress; communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank

2

to be clear-headed; to be brainy

1

(software) update; upgrade (to a new version); upgrade (to a device, product, etc.); improvement

1

automatic; intransitive verb

36

bodily sensation; feeling in the body; physical feeling; coenesthesia; cenesthesia; coenesthesis

2

column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude

1

to be clear-headed

1

numerical value; figure; result; reading (on a meter, etc.)

4

jellyfish

1

(having) two choices; choice between two things

1

to be ordered (to do); to be charged with (a duty); to be assigned (a job)

1

tuck (e.g. in a dress); rise (e.g. in price)

3

accompanying (someone); going with; travelling together; the same bank; the said bank

9

guidance; leadership; leading the way

1

paying; remunerative; advantageous; profitable

2

(giving) instruction (esp. in the secrets of an art, discipline, etc.); initiation; teaching; passing on; imparting

3

to kill with a sword (knife, dagger, etc.); to slay; to put to the sword

1

first impression

1

uninterested (in); having no interest (in)

6