great difference; big difference; wide margin
pains; hard work; effort; trouble; labour; labor
succession; accession; inheritance
empress dowager; queen mother
penance; austerities; mortification; asceticism
establishing; founding; setting up; organizing; establishment
exclusive; attached to; specialist
wholeheartedly (approve, agree, etc.); unconditionally; completely
assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
to give a round of applause; to applaud
the same generation; coeval
to worry about; to be worried about; to fret about; to not know what to do; to be at a loss (as to what to do)
results; record; grades; marks
intensiveness; collecting; summarizing; putting together
unprecedented; unheard-of; record-breaking
to use as a pretext; to use as an excuse
surrender; submission; capitulation; being defeated (e.g. by a problem); giving up; giving in
general; overall; across-the-board
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less
obstacle; impediment; hindrance; handicap; impairment; disability
to flare up; to burst into flames
difference in temperature; difference in degrees of enthusiasm, interest, commitment, etc.
what (e.g. "what rudeness"); what (something) is like
how much; how many; however
disgust; hate; repugnance; loathing
proper; right; reasonable
job-related; in the course of one's work
adopted daughter; foster daughter
unmarried woman; Miss; -ess; -ette
foil; (gold, etc.) leaf; prestige
wedding; bridal procession; marriage into a family
family a woman has married into
don't worry; no worries; never mind
morality; righteousness; meaning; teachings; doctrine; nonconsanguineous relationship (i.e. of in-laws)
father-in-law; foster father; stepfather
I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal
the same grade; same class