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spreading around (news, etc.); talking about widely; noising about; circulating

1

rightly or wrongly; by all possible means

1

possession; retention; maintenance

11

to obtain; to procure

3

plan; intention

3

to do so; to do thus

2

10,000; ten thousand

7

to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house

1

lord; master

1

greed; worldly or materialistic desires

1

honor; honour; credit; prestige

1

greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice

1

dominion; territory; possession

1

expansion; extension; enlargement; escape; ESC

3

will; desire; ambition; urge (e.g. creative urge)

2

unrelated; unconnected; without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives; unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha

1

and so; therefore; for that reason

1

ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid

1

fight; battle; combat; struggle (for rights, higher wages, etc.); strife; (labor) dispute

1

fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing

1

superficial; half-hearted; shallow

1

to the core; to the bone; (lit.) to the marrow

1

to suck; to lick

1

origin of an affair; spark that lit the fuse; beginning

1

misgovernment

1

election

3

tax reduction

2

reclamation (e.g. wasteland); cultivation; development; pioneering; opening up (e.g. new market); breaking new ground

10

democratic

1

system; organization; organisation; imperial command; laws; regulation

1

introduction; bringing in; leading in; installation

1

sometimes; occasionally; now and then; from time to time

1

bid for popularity; publicity stunt

1

political measures; policy

1

main point; main object; chief purpose; core; gist; essence

1

at that time; in those days

3

good outward appearance; looking nice; being attractive; making a fine show

3

large sturdy broad-bladed knife, used in woodcraft and hunting

1

how; in what way

1

funds; capital

1

to accept; to receive; to agree

3

entrusting (something to a person); consignment (of goods); putting in someone's charge; trust; commission

1

plan; policy

1

adoption; selection; choice

1

natural calamity; disaster

1

to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide

4

aimlessly; without a goal

1

hills and fields; countryside

2

to walk around; to travel around

1

conspirators; faction; cabal; clique

2