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to acquire knowledge

1

to collect information; to gather knowledge

1

to ponder; to brood

3

model; dummy; model (profession); fashion model; model (of a vehicle, machine, etc.); version; model (e.g. mathematical)

2

observer

3

teacher; instructor; teaching staff; faculty member

1

to be moreish; to have a quality that encourages you to eat (drink) more of them after; to have lingering effects

2

good prospects; full of hope; promising

1

gentle; peaceable; amicable; without fuss; simply

1

retirement; resignation

1

wind and waves; strife; discord; dissension

1

conversely; on the contrary

1

education world or circles

1

first; new

3

attempt; trial; experiment; endeavour (endeavor); effort; venture

1

postbox; mailbox; post; position; post (e.g. goalpost); post- (e.g. post-Cold War)

2

criticism; judgement; judgment; comment

2

post; official position; managerial position; executive position

1

title (e.g. Doctor, Professor, Lord); job title; position (in a company); degree; status; rank

1

(compulsory) retirement (e.g. on reaching the age of 65); mandatory retirement; reaching retirement age

1

(social) position; status

1

severance payment; retirement money (usu. lump-sum); redundancy payment

1

after retirement

1

retiring high-ranking government officials taking a lucrative job in a private or semi-private corporation; command (from superior to inferior, government to private sector, etc.); order; descent from heaven

1

grade

2

advantage; benefit; merit; good point; plus

2

hard (life); tough (world)

1

one's old bones; old man

1

the front (of a battlefield); forefront

1

to step back; to move back; to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to resign; to retire

1

metabolic syndrome; overweight

1

week

1

Monday

3

school gate

3

palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)

1

to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

2

shortish; rather short; somewhat short

1

poison fang; sinister ways; crooked means; clutches

1

magic sword; cursed sword

1

necromancer

1

(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat

1

to want; to desire

1

report; notification; tip; message (in information and communication theory)

1

hastily made; improvised preparation

1

to make over (clothing); to have altered; to renovate

1

bursting at the seams; bulging

3

summer sweater

1

to lend (e.g. money)

3

camisole

1

bra

2