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Queen Mother; Empress Dowager

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guardianship; guardian; (theatrical) assistant; prompter

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arbitrariness; despotism; high-handedness; tyranny

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illegitimate child

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going according to one's wishes; ceremonial sceptre used by monks when reciting sutras (scepter)

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to plan; to plot; to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business); (arch.) to stand on tip-toes

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wife; Mrs; (arch.) wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.); (arch.) consort of the emperor

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discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment

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abandonment; renunciation; resignation; abdication (responsibility, right)

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to struggle in the water; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe; to (nearly) drown; to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted

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death

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orphan; child left by the deceased; abandoned child

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successor; replacement; second wife

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maternal relative

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to take (trouble); to attend (to business); to command (army)

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rebellious; defiant

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favour; favor; patronage

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elder statesman

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to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke

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regarding with apprehension; viewing with anxiety

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(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently

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work; job; labor; work

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imperial family; royalty

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various countries; various regions; various provinces

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different mother

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front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context

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to bring someone along

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birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin

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to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant

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dynasty; reign; period; epoch; court; North Korea

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marquis; lord; daimyo

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pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants

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whipping; beating with a whip; whiplash

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wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason

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anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case

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even if not; even without

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lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship

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topmost

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system

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had better ...; had better not ...

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constitutional monarchy; limited monarchy

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powerful person; influential person

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limitation; restriction; condition; constraints

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mobocracy; mob rule; ochlocracy

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king; monarch; ruler; champion

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otherwise; or else; if not

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(male) farmer; peasant; farmhand

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fields (of rice and other crops)

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to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign

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craftsman; artisan; craft; craftsmanship; plot; scheme

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