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to manage skillfully; to manoeuvre (e.g. car, horse); to maneuver

1

in bad taste; vulgar; tasteless

1

truthfulness; credibility; sincerity; honesty; good faith

1

manipulation of information; spin

2

to twist; to distort

2

full name

2

to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)

2

to be common

2

privileged class

2

main thread (of a story)

2

restive horse; unmanageable person (esp. a woman); shrew; stubborn tomboy

1

engagement; betrothal

5

shape; form; appearance; state; situation; suitable

1

news flash; prompt report; bulletin; quick announcement

1

notification; official notice; directive (e.g. from higher to lower levels of the administration); being well versed (in); being proficient (in)

9

carrier pigeon; homing pigeon

1

(army) division

5

to become weak

2

worthless; insignificant; unimportant; poor; miserable; wretched

1

lower layer; layer beneath; lower strata (classes)

1

well; now; then

2

useful; helpful

6

bombshell announcement (statement)

3

strange; unfamiliar; mysterious; not knowing the true nature

1

useful insect

1

dying; death; dead; useless; damned

12

to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of

1

coworker; co-worker; colleague; associate

6

favorable; favourable

3

rustic; unsophisticated; provincial; hick; cornball

1

to look down on; to condescend

4

noncommittal; equivocal; indecisive; evasive; ambiguous; vague

1

to lay aside; to set aside

4

mean; malicious; scheming; wicked; black-hearted

2

village girl

4

to risk one's life (to do); to put one's life on the line; to step forward (to do); to give one's all

1

to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking

1

to be overproduced; to be incredibly good (e.g. for a child); to go much better than expected; to be too good to be true (of a story, etc.)

1

discord; antagonism

4

leading aristocrat; great house; grand seigneur; boyar

2

on bad terms; at loggerheads

1

to backbite

3

of tender years; very young

1

politics; government

9

cover (e.g. for illegal activity); front; Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant); straw raincoat that makes one invisible

1

ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot)

6

misrepresentation; false statement

1

to try to unsettle someone; to throw off balance

1

ace up one's sleeve; trump card; secret skills; secret; (arch.) left hand

7

legitimate; orthodox; traditional

2