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sophistry; sophism

6

soft voice

2

harsh (criticism, treatment, etc.); severe; hard; strict

3

to insinuate; to satirize; to satirise; to take a dig at

1

(not so) much; (not) very

8

to injure; to damage; to kill; to hinder; to obstruct

2

indicate reason; infers some protest

9

light; easy; non-serious; minor

4

long-awaited; long-waited-for; someone who has waited a long time; something that one has waited impatiently for

1

meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club

7

listener's role

2

least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least

13

to listen repeatedly; to listen again; to ask a question in return; to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation

2

wild; in disarray

1

I got it; I see; I now know; So that's the reason

3

slip of the tongue; misstatement; verbal slip-up

2

to creep about; to crawl around

1

notes; comment; remark; annotation

4

under the floor

22

awfully; terribly

1

to be discouraged; to shrink from

1

forcefulness of speech; influential voice

2

to use up; to squander

1

one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume

4

double-dealing; double tongue; going back on what one has said; repeating oneself

2

binding; regulation; limit; binding period (e.g. phone or broadband contract); minimum contract term

2

1000 sheets (of paper); many pages; book tripe; bible tripe; leaf tripe

2

sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)

1

storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)

3

guard; girder bridge

2

spokesman

4

to conform to; to be in accordance with; to follow (rule, tradition, example, etc.)

4

inspection; examination; checking

1

well; in good health; safe; free from accident

4

bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry

14

to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize

2

looking depressed; long face

1

to say; to tell; to state; to do

5

to start to drink; to try to drink; to partially drink

1

intended for ...; oriented towards ...; aimed at ...

2

taste; elegance; appearance; air; the likes of ...; lowly people such as ...

3

service; duty; work

2

child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)

192

next; then; after that

2

war of words

1

breast; breaststroke; brainstorming

7

black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans)

1

quarrel; dispute

1

to die; to expire

1

prohibition; ban; embargo

1