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progress; advance; improvement; development

1

transfer; assignment

1

coronation; crowning

1

absolute monarchy

1

to cling

1

tide; tidal current; tendency; drift; trend

1

leadership; initiative; spearhead

1

usurpation; taking back; dispossession

2

grasping; seizing; holding; commanding; having control over

1

politics of fear; terrorism; reign of terror (esp. in the French revolution)

1

suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows

1

new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)

2

powerful person; influential person

1

internal strife; infighting; internal conflict

1

(beheading) block; guillotine; scaffold

2

flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event

1

loose; slack; gentle (slope, curve); slow (speed); lenient; liberal

1

both extremes

1

pair; the two; both persons; both things

2

to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve

1

gun point; muzzle

1

transfer; assignment

1

start; beginning; first step; clue

1

righteous government; just rule; easy method; simple approach; orthodox way; proper way

2

to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)

2

(your) words; what you say; what you have said; a few words (of welcome, advice, etc.)

1

to behave like a spoiled child; to fawn on; to take advantage of; to presume upon (e.g. another's benevolence); to depend on

2

miscellaneous; mixed; unorganized

1

to strain (one's ears, eyes); to prick up (one's ears)

1

rough (estimate, outline, etc.); broad; general; generous; openhanded

2

grasp; catch; understanding

2

reservist; recruit

2

arrival

3

invasion

3

fields (of rice and other crops)

1

autumn; fall

2

bad harvest; poor crop

1

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

1

indemnities; reparations

4

mark; guide; purpose; aim; sight (on a firearm)

1

certain victory

1

to fix (a time, date, etc.); to set; to expect; to hope for; to resolve (to do); to decide upon

1

defeat; loss; reverse; setback

1

invasion; incursion; raid; aggression; intrusion; trespass

1

harvest; crop; ingathering; fruits (of one's labors); gain; result

1

even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is

3

great poverty

1

to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle

1

burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering

1

(death from) starvation; starving to death

2