evasion; avoidance; shirking; recusation (of a judge); taking exception (to a judge); challenge
to knock at the gate; to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil
telling others; revealing to others; letting out a secret
to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)
wife; Mrs; (arch.) wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.); (arch.) consort of the emperor
of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)
heir; inheritor; successor
to be lacking in options; to be too few
lowborn; humble; vulgar; coarse; shabby; greedy
to have a rumor circulating
origin; birthplace; descent; lineage; ancestry
to coil around; to follow about; to be related to; to concern; to be associated with
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
lady attendant; lady's maid; waiting maid
disagreeable; unpleasant; adverse; unsympathetic
false accusation; pretext; picking a quarrel; committing oneself
to switch (secretly); to substitute; to sidestep (an issue)
uncertainty; inaccuracy; incorrectness
good person; virtuous person
wicked person; evil person; scoundrel; bad thing; mischief
system where all students live in dormitories; residential system; boarding system (e.g. boarding school)
girls college (esp. in names of Christian schools)
stupidity; silliness; asininity; imbecility; dim-wittedness
subject; theme; homework; assignment; task; challenge
to be slow; to not make progress; to be inefficient
to allow; to let (somebody) do; to make (somebody) do
(having) bad marks or results (e.g. in school); of poor quality or workmanship
to be in disorder; to lie scattered around
hearsay; rumor; grapevine
as much as possible; as far as possible; whenever possible; if (at all) possible
to ask a big favour; to ask unreasonable things; to be unreasonable
academic year; school year; year in school; grade in school
to torment; to pain; to inflict (physical) pain; to harass; to cause (emotional) pain; to afflict
to introduce; to compare; to check; to adjust; to pull into place
to examine someone's expression
uncle; old man; mister; manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)