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successive generations; successive emperors

1

ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery

3

shoes

1

haughty; arrogant; supercilious

1

recommendation (of a person for a position); nomination

1

empty threat; bluff; paper tiger

2

begging for one's life; pleading for one's life

1

great cause; moral law; justice

1

dissidents; troublemakers; disturbing elements

1

illegitimate child; secret love child

1

anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone

2

to smoke out (insects, animals, etc.)

1

ulterior motive; plot; scheme; complicated circumstances; intricacies

1

to be forestalled; to be taken in; to be cheated; to be outwitted

1

battleaxe

7

right elbow

1

everybody; every last one of them; all

1

to creep; to crawl

4

(frustratingly) slow; tedious; sluggish; roundabout (e.g. explanation); exasperating; irritating

1

to leave as is; to let alone; to disregard

1

Near; Nia

3

black cat; Yamato Transport (door-to-door delivery service company)

35

coat (of hair or fur); lie of (dog's) hair; type; sort; lineage; breeding

3

all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration

1

continual change; vicissitudes; transmigration; metempsychosis

1

murderer

1

grief; sorrow; anguish; lamentation

2

to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to think of (a far-off person, place, etc.); to cast one's mind to; to worry about; to feel anxious about

1

(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling

1

horizon (related to land)

1

time difference

2

real time

1

appearance; figure; shape; form

1

(software) update; upgrade (to a new version); upgrade (to a device, product, etc.); improvement

3

overproduction

1

binding hand and foot; sleep paralysis; temporary feeling of paralysis; being tied down with money

2

through a (computer, etc.) screen

1

adult female; woman

1

background image; static image

3

Janice

11

aspiration; volunteering; desire; application

3

adventurous spirit; sense of adventure

1

diversion; putting something to another use

1

filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); fill-in-the-blank activity

1

(arch.) difference (from one another); (arch.) different thing; (arch.) other; unusual; extraordinary

3

maker; manufacturer; producer; producer (of a film, play, etc.)

2

thought

3

miscalculation

1

reason for being; raison d'être

2

elitism; idea of being part of a chosen people

1