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one's assessment of the situation

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seniority; long service

1

seedy-looking; thin

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middle-aged man

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reserve; spare; preparation; preliminaries

2

standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert

5

decisive battle; deciding match; play-off

2

ferocious; fierce; audacious; impudent; shameless

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famous; fame

3

succeeding; following; trailing; next

2

important task; important duty; important mission; heavy responsibility

1

start; leaving; marching off

2

date and time

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showy; ostentatious

1

intelligence or information network

1

zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)

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pre-established harmony (Leibniz theory); harmonie préétablie; (events) proceeding in a predictable fashion; turning out the way everyone expected; convention

1

to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back

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high (government) official

2

to assemble (in a hall); to meet together (in a room)

1

adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing

2

three times; thrice; third (musical interval); many times; over and over again

1

to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for

2

attendance

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high official

5

appearing one after another; cropping up one after another; occurring in succession

1

vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)

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throwing down; dropping; airdrop; investment

4

annexation; merger; swallowing up

1

to come to nothing; to go down the drain; to go up in smoke

1

measuring rope with 'ken' (182cm) marked; measurement

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concentrated fire; intense criticism

1

mine (ore)

1

plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place

1

enterprise; business; company; corporation

1

mechanism; organization; organisation

2

to get torn; to tear; to rip; to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.); to break down; to collapse

3

pain and itching; mental anguish; unhealthy emotions

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to attack a routed enemy; to sink the boot into; to pour salt on a wound

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or; or else

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to be careful; to be discreet; to do in moderation; to refrain (from overdoing); to be reverent; to be purified

1

tone (of voice); parlance; style; intonation; accent

2

old or veteran army general

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implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication; obscurely

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bribe; sweetener; douceur

1

rebate; commission; kickback

1

how many people

2

founding father

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measure of area

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one's own style; self-taught manner

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