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1 The Jesuits (Society of Jesus)

1 to raise

2 to lift

3 to take along (e.g. one's family)

1 to provoke anger

1 to heave a sigh of relief

2 to get one's breath back

3 to vent one's spleen

1 smoke and fire

2 fireworks

1 Japanese devil (common term of abuse in wartime China and in subsequent writing)

1 amorous feelings

2 stirrings of love

1 excellent

2 outstanding

1 zero

2 nought

3 zero sign

4 fractional

5 fragmentary

6 odd (of numbers)

7 (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one)

8 fraction

9 (in mathematics) remainder (after division)

10 extra

11 to wither and fall

12 to wither

1 Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC reforming politician, general secretary of Chinese Communist Party 1987-1989, held under house arrest from 1989 to his death, and non-person since then

1 reception office

2 janitor's office

1 cervical smear (Tw)

1 ancient

2 old

3 age-old

1 a spy

2 a crafty person

1 to economize on clothes and food

2 to scrimp and save (idiom)

1 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC)

1 agri-biotechnology

1 brook

2 to select

1 complimentary remarks

2 well-wishing