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to boost; to force up; to push up

1

person concerned; person qualified; person in question; party; litigant (legal)

2

to be complicated; to be elaborate; (arch.) to push in; (arch.) to be crowded

2

disinheritance; disowning

1

disinheritance

1

for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad

6

unheard-of; unprecedented

6

before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing

1

husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)

1

to rouse anger; to provoke wrath; to offend

1

disastrous scene; terrible spectacle

1

methodical; precise; meticulous; wooden post that has been carved to have a rounded corner with grooves running along either side of it

1

reactionary

1

to give the stamp of approval

1

to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)

2

enmity; antagonism; hostility

4

a piece; a scrap; a fragment; iota; modicum; trace

3

to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

3

obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit

1

to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)

6

complicity

2

faint, ironic or bittersweet smile

2

private residence

1

private room

1

to look at again; to re-examine (policy, estimate, plan, etc.); to review; to get a better opinion of; to see in a more positive light; to improve

1

in good taste; tasteful; (person) of refined taste; of cultivated tastes

1

to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)

2

modern

1

classical; classic

1

balance

1

old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

3

harmony; reconciliation

1

censer; incense burner

2

slightly; faintly

1

chief seat; seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table

1

catercorner; diagonally opposite

3

to sink (into one's seat, etc.); to leap to one's death (by drowning); to be reduced to (esp. working as a prostitute)

1

to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

1

origin of an affair; spark that lit the fuse; beginning

1

to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly

1

point in question (at issue)

4

intention; wish; purpose; mind (to do)

3

injury; harm; evil influence; damage

1

obstruction; check; hindrance; prevention; impediment; interdiction

2

meaning; point (e.g. of a statement); gist; effect

1

close call; narrow escape

1

openly; in public; without caring what others think

2

to take (someone) away; to carry off; to abduct; to kidnap

1

scene; setting; scene (in a movie, play); shot; state of the market

3

one eyebrow

2