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war; battle; match; game; competition

2

to take command; to give direction

1

bravery; military prowess; valour; valor

3

concealment; suppression; hiding

1

royal prince; crown prince's younger brother

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gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees

3

to brighten; to grow light

1

congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly

4

firm; strong; unbending; unyielding; uncompromising; stubborn

1

political measures; policy

1

hero; heroine; Eroica Symphony (Beethoven, 1804); Heroic Polonaise (Chopin)

2

this occasion; at this time; now

1

other; another; over; more than; I; me

1

to hear of; to learn of

1

(abstract) symbol; emblem; representation

1

gold leaf; beaten gold

1

to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell

1

(brother and sister) born of a different mother

1

parent and child

1

nervous; highly strung; sensitive; fussy; worried about petty things

1

menial; meanness; servility; abject

1

first meeting; first interview with

1

to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to feel emotions from (joy, bravery, etc.); to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)

1

triumphant return; returning in triumph

6

party; banquet; feast

1

scheme; tactic; stratagem; trick

1

appraisal; estimation; evaluation; setting prices

1

(as alike as) two peas in a pod

1

value to society; raison d'être; existence value

1

(an) unknown; unknown number; variable; unknown quantity; not yet known

1

vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard

2

to choke; to have trouble breathing

3

balcony

4

garden; park

5

plot; ulterior motive; thing; article; penis

2

exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin

2

to relax one's mind; to feel relaxed; to become remiss; to cease paying careful attention

1

to ask a question; to begin to ask a question

1

wariness

1

nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all

2

to be solved; to be resolved; to loosen; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. a ban)

1

rustling; dry; rough feeling; rough (of a person); course; catching fish with a net

1

thick growth of plants; plantation; shrubbery; thicket

3

to make an appearance; to show up

11

marked; pronounced; showing a strong tendency (towards)

1

playmate; playfellow

2

to bring someone along

2

to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

1

family name; house name; family honour; family honor

1

name; given name; first name

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