inheritance; succession; accession; share-alike
abandonment; renunciation; resignation; abdication (responsibility, right)
being adopted into the family of one's bride
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to do ... completely; to do ... entirely
taking over (e.g. store or family's headship); subrogation; substitution of one person for another (usu. a creditor)
strengthening of relations
percussion; tapping; examining by percussion; sounding out (someone's intentions); making an approach (about)
domestic affairs; internal administration
stability; steadiness; equilibrium
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
domestic and foreign; inside and outside the country
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
breaking off an engagement
to offer; to propose; to suggest; to put forward; to request; to ask (for)
right of succession; right to the throne
stripping (of rights, office, etc.); deprivation; divestiture; forfeit; revocation
to approach; to draw near; to be imminent; to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel
education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
to solicit; to demand; to extort
national expenditure; government spending; public funds
like water; like it grows on trees
(doing) as one pleases; to one's heart's content; letting (something) go unchecked; leaving uncontrolled; leaving (something) to take its own course
king; queen; monarch; the Crown (as a focus of authority in the UK, etc.); the throne
nature; disposition; temperament; qualities; attributes; talents
doubting; questioning; being skeptical (of)
national crisis; national disaster
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
to ascertain; to make sure of; to determine; to probe; to get to the bottom (of something)
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
rendezvous; tryst; (lover's) meeting; (secret) date
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
workmanship; craftsmanship; grades; results; quality (e.g. of a crop); dealings
to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to let go down; to lower; to do oneself
flaw; defect; problem; inconvenient