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royalty

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insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy

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inheritance; succession; accession; share-alike

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no problem; all right; not an issue; unobjectionable

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polygyny

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thieving cat; adulterer; homewrecker

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possessiveness; desire to monopolize (monopolise); desire for control

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love; affection

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equal; equivalent; equals sign; equality sign; equals (as in "A equals B")

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relatives; one's family; friends; members of the same organization; followers; henchmen

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this and that; this or that; one thing after another

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serious; not joking; straight

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seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of

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thundering; purring; something large and heavy starting to roll; scattered about; common; idleness; idling about

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Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei, father of Emperor Cao Pi; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms

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Tokugawa Ienari (1773.11.18-1841.2.20), Shougun 1786-1837

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general; shogun

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term of office; tenure; incumbency

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successive generations; successive emperors

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bakufu; shogunate

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public finance; financial affairs; financial situation

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to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to go down (sun); to wane; to sink

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one cause; one reason; one factor

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collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration

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the last drop makes the cup run over; too much of a good thing; less is more

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full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)

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come, come; come; come now; here you go; here; when handing something

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three colours; three colors; triple run; winning hand containing the same chow in each of the three suits; triple pung; winning hand containing the same pung in each of the three suits

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street light

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multi-floor building; multi-storey building; bill

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traffic light; signalling mechanism; semaphore (apparatus)

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train; electric train

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to become bloodshot

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manner; style

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way; method; means

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network; Internet; net (hair, netball, etc.); net (price, weight, etc.); nett

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to lose one's way; to get lost; to waver; to hesitate; to give into temptation; to lose control of oneself

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atomic bomb; A-bomb

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science

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two times; twice; two degrees

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to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed

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Einstein

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to leave words (behind one, e.g. after death); to say (for posterity); to utter last words; to leave some things unsaid

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World War III; Third World War

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arms; weapon; ordnance

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fourth

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next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence

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world war

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stick; club; cudgel; bludgeon

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message

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