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above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent

3

confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)

1

to show signs of ...; to have the appearance of ...

1

together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

9

point in time; occasion

2

decision; determination; resolution

3

whether or not (in phrases like "I don't know whether or not I can come")

1

suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange

4

to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to interpret; to understand

6

oneself; oneself; for oneself; personally

15

to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely

1

dark; dull; unsatisfactory; dissatisfying; unattractive; unappealing

2

pessimism; disappointment

1

evening; night; dinner

4

short sword; dagger; stiletto; hour hand (of a clock)

12

to chip (off); to shave (off); to slice (off); to dampen (e.g. enthusiasm); to discourage; to weaken

8

to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)

11

satisfactory; decent

1

measure; step; dealing with; medical treatment

2

natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly

6

large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)

1

blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings

15

concerning the result (as opposed to the means used to achieve this result or the original goal)

1

cause; origin; source

1

to lose one's life

2

to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

1

ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist

1

sea of blood; pool of blood

2

small amount; jot; nothing much; (to a) slight degree; wee bit

4

with ... as a start; taking advantage of; inspired by

2

to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing

2

forcibly; against one's will

5

restoration; repair; mending

1

corpse; remains

5

each; every

1

example; specimen; sample

7

to lay in a coffin

1

liked; well-liked; in love (with); loved; faddism; eccentricity

6

to decorate; to ornament; to display; to exhibit; to mark (e.g. the day with a victory); to adorn (e.g. the front page)

1

that day; the very same day

2

to make a speech; to address

4

every day

3

to offer; to sacrifice; to dedicate

1

to smile (at); to grin (at)

4

pitiful; pathetic; painful to look at

6

supremacism

1

to shed tears

5

disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful

4

to die

2

a few years later

1