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sending back; return to sender

2

dawn breaks; day dawns

1

formal; official; regular; proper; legal; due (formalities)

1

errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit; use

6

sitting in a circle

1

silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction

2

(forming a) circle; huddle; circular (battle) formation

1

in general; generally; as a whole; all in all; altogether

1

to become pale; to turn pale

1

to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled

3

lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous

1

to store; to save up; to accumulate (e.g. knowledge); to build up (e.g. experience); to grow (a beard, moustache, etc.); to wear

1

head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest

3

store; reserve; stock; savings

2

bold; daring; unflappable

1

performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

4

sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness

4

spade; plough; plow

2

repair; mending; fixing; servicing

2

to spend money

1

more than usual (usu. time)

2

superior; first-class; excellent; (that's) just fine!; bring it on!

1

to drink too much

1

anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever

4

to get stuck with (some job); to end up with (something unpleasant)

2

to bow one's head; to hang one's head; to droop (e.g. ears of grain)

1

to peddle (goods); to hawk

1

presence; dignity; corpulence; obesity

2

to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come

2

last year

1

to sow; to plant; to sow (the seeds of; e.g. conflict); to sprinkle (gold or silver powder on lacquerware)

3

tolerable; passable; adequate; so-so

1

four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold

1

next year

6

poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure; low quality (e.g. of literary works)

1

to be of no importance

1

old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

2

to eat up; to consume (completely)

1

food situation

1

worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst

3

to assume an aspect; to take on an appearance

2

poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious

1

empty stomach; hunger

1

I; me

1

these guys; these fellows

1

is not; am not; are not; isn't it?

4

high price

1

ulterior motive; plot; scheme; complicated circumstances; intricacies

1

to bring someone along

1

suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows

2