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1 Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist

1 5-1 (May 1st)

1 to look around

2 to care for

1 speculation and profiteering (idiom); buying and selling on speculation

1 human life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence

1 private

2 privately-owned

1 Kong Yingda (574-648), Confucian scholar

1 lockout buzzer system (as used by game show contestants)

1 Acheron River in Epirus, northwest Greece

1 lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 di4] when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat)

2 fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight

1 oxacillin

1 croissant

1 hull

2 body of a ship

1 to chorus sb else's lead (idiom); to chime in in agreement

1 Ceaseless pain (Sanskrit: Avici), one of the Buddhist hells

2 fig. hell

3 hell on earth

1 during

2 at the time of

1 portability (programming language)

1 antifreeze

1 Kaposi's sarcoma