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battle; fight; fighting; engagement; contest

4

discernment; penetration; keen insight; your discernment; your insight; your conjecture

1

several volumes (books)

2

ancient times; distant past; antiquity

54

illustration (in a book, newspaper, etc.); picture

4

sorcerer; genie; human with supernatural powers

6

direction (of a play, film, etc.); production; organization (of an event); arrangement; staging (for effect)

12

encryption; encoding; encipherment

3

being shelved (of a movie, project, etc.); being postponed; being put on hold; putting in storage

1

not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means; very hard to manage

2

in preparation; (shop) not yet open for business

4

meddling (in); butting in; interference; poking one's nose into

2

noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

1

with my own (two) eyes; with these very eyes

2

supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor

2

cap (hat); cap (of a bottle, pen, etc.); leader; chief

5

fundamental; basic

2

to insert; to put in; to send in (to a prisoner; e.g. clothes, books); to deliver (food, refreshments, etc. to workers); to supply

1

family crest

2

plain; unfigured; patternless; solid (color)

3

coating (esp. lacquering)

1

as much as possible; unbeatably; unsurpassably

1

Minaux

1

Popper; Popper, Karl Raimund (1902.7.28-1994.9.17; Austrian-British philosopher)

1

to begin to open; to come out; to smile broadly; to come apart at the seams (clothes)

3

to be overcome with emotion

1

to become aroused (of emotions, nerves, etc.); to become excited; to become stirred up; to be proud; to be haughty; to be pompous

6

happy memory; sweet memory

1

poisonous air; poisonous gas; poisonous ingredient; poisonous nature; malice; spite

1

business; work; operations; service; duties

6

tiring easily; easy to tire

1

prana

5

nature; natural constitution; innate disposition

3

to knead well; to polish; to refine

5

to be by far the best; to be much better; to excel; to be exceptional; to be prominent; to be outstanding

4

euphemistic; circumlocutory; periphrastic; roundabout; indirect

1

fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy

11

technical term; terminology; jargon

1

absentminded response

1

toning down; calming down; slowing down; mollification

2

very small amount; insignificant thing; negligible amount

2

volley firing; fusillade; broadside

7

overdependence (on others; usu. one's fosterers or seniors); lack of self-reliance; presumed acceptance (of one's behaviour); presumed benevolence; attention-seeking (behavior)

3

foolhardiness; recklessness; savage valour; savage valor; brute courage

2

to envy; to be envious of; to be jealous of

2

great talents mature late

3

slump

1

defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage

1

fluke; chance; pure luck

2

teaching; instruction; teachings; precept; lesson; doctrine

6