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announcement; notice

2

alliance; union; league

2

dense; dim; dull-witted; unsympathetic; slow to understand; slow on the uptake

1

consideration; guess; conjecture; judgment; judgement

2

brisk; lively; energetic

1

sleepwalking; somnambulism; noctambulism

1

to dodge (e.g. a question); to evade; to sidestep; to give (someone) the slip

1

arbitration; intercession; mediation

1

consequently; as a result

1

of no concern at all; no skin off my nose

1

to swallow (e.g. a story); to accept without questioning; to swallow (food) whole; to gobble up; to gulp down

1

ambitious undertaking; grand scheme

1

objection

2

intonation; accent; modulation; inflection

1

all right; very well; okay; I got it

1

resemblance; likeness; similarity; analogy

1

artificial; man-made; imitation; synthetic

3

improvement; reform

1

drawing up (e.g. legal document, contract, will, etc.); preparing; writing; framing; making; producing

2

establishment; settlement

3

to have in one's dreams

1

to cure an illness; to cure a disease

1

relay; hook-up; relay broadcasting

1

to compile; to bring together; to weave; to put together; to bring to a conclusion; to wrap up

2

typhoon; hurricane

3

being watchful; keeping watch; keeping an eye open

1

to take advantage (of somebody's weaknesses, carelessness, etc.); to impose on

1

conversely; on the contrary

1

scandalous dispute

1

speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)

1

repeater; relay

1

vast; boundless; vague; obscure

1

astringency; constriction; collecting (e.g. opinions); putting together; extraction (of taxes); convergence (of light); convergence

1

chrysalis; pupa

1

emergence (of insects); eclosion; growing wings

3

that sort of; like that

1

innermost depths of one's heart

1

to speak the truth

1

point of intersection

1

to sit; to squat; to be implicated

1

temporary; transient; trifling; slight; negligent

1

mutual enemies

1

to serve God

1

extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness

1

failed creative work; flop; dud; bomb

1

Son of God; child of an emperor

1

to act as one pleases; to throw one's weight around; to have everything one's own way

1

to stand and shout

1

to smile

2

flock of sheep

1