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powerful person; influential person

1

to take an attitude; to take a stance; to commit oneself; to assume a position

3

halfwit; blockhead; fool

2

head (of organization, organisation); chief; sheikh; emir

1

sticky; persistent; insistent; nagging

1

good person; virtuous person

2

to jump on someone's (verbal) mistake; to trip someone up; to find fault with something someone says

2

lasciviousness; lechery; salaciousness; lust; sensuality; lewdness

2

model; standard; pattern; norm; criterion; example

2

plausible; believable; solemn; dignified; serious

1

boogie

1

piglet

2

sealed letter

9

written notification; notification (written)

1

to forbid; to suppress

1

peremptory command; must-obey order; absolute instruction; categorical imperative

1

to make public

2

top secret mission

1

competent; suitable; qualified

8

direct contact

3

left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable

1

name (esp. on a deed, contract, etc.); moral duty; justification; pretext

1

call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)

1

letter; note; epistle; correspondence

1

express messenger; postman; mailman; courier

2

relationship; relation

6

feel uneasy; on tenterhooks; in suspense; on pins and needles

2

resolution of an incident; solution to a (criminal) case

1

orders; instructions; directive; command

20

right to know; right to access information

2

to hurt; to smart; to sting

8

wrapping paper

1

document; letter; writing; contents (e.g. of a letter)

1

suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows

2

to lose one's composure

2

bottom of the ocean; seafloor; seabed; undersea; submarine

1

delivery; handing over; turning over; extradition

1

ivy (esp. Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata)

19

enclosure; annex; separate sheet; accompanying sheet

3

(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red

5

twelve o'clock; midnight; noon

2

having not the slightest idea

1

contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game

1

continuous

2

management organization; management organisation

1

birthplace

2

pattern; design

1

to address

1

code; password; cipher

8

fetus; foetus; embryo; unborn child

2