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wise; sensible; well-advised; intelligent; sagacious; prudent

1

upstart; nouveau riche; new money; piece promoted to gold general

1

guest of honor; guest of honour; good customer; important customer

1

superlative; extraordinary; mega; superdreadnought (class of warships)

1

public acknowledgment; public acknowledgement; public recognition; commendation; awarding

1

violence; reckless action; (an) outrage

1

after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years

4

(on) the same day

1

to get off one's backside; to bestir oneself

1

within eyeshot; within sight; in view

1

to get irritated; to get annoyed; to be on the edge; to fret; to lose patience

2

vulgar; coarse; low

1

effect; result; worth; Kai (former province located in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)

1

cornerstone; main point; requirement; need; necessary; required

3

to attract someone's attention; to arouse someone's interest; to sound someone out; to try to find out someone's true feelings; to (discreetly) probe someone's thoughts

1

emerald

1

industry

1

to be enigmatic; to be puzzling; to be wrapped in mystery

1

to keep a promise; to keep one's word

1

to shoot through something (wall, body, etc.); to pierce (e.g. with an arrow or a look)

3

conditioned reflex

1

focus (of a lens); focal point; point (of a discussion, e.g. on-point, off-point)

1

credit card

1

to detain; to check; to restrain

4

piercing; shrill; noisy; loud; clamorous; wild

2

still (continuing); as ever; further

4

creak; squeak; creaking; discord; strife; friction

2

huge; gargantuan

1

to grow older (esp. older than other people in the same group or situation); to advance in age; to be very aged

1

to be dying; to be about to die; to be close to death

3

weak constitution; ill health

2

command; direction

1

numerical calculation

1

government office building

8

extension telephone

1

in front of one's eyes; just nearby; within a stone's throw

1

office (e.g. the Oval Office)

5

to get impatient; to become irritated; to fret; to chafe

1

imposingly; heavily; conspicuously; in a dignified manner

1

way; method; means; (technical) specification

1

successive generations; successive emperors

1

of noble birth; wellborn

1

to provide; to arrange; to install

1

executive vice-president

9

working capital

1

to run out of; to dry up; to be depleted; to hit the bottom; to bottom out

1

I don't know

1

important post; important office; key position

1

to smoke a cigarette

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act of barbarity; barbarism; brutality; savagery

1