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1 Rectification or Rectifying incorrect work styles, Maoist slogan

2 cf Rectification campaign 整風運動|整风运动, army purge of 1942-44 and anti-rightist purge of 1957

1 silicon tetrafluoride SiF4

1 to be duty bound

2 to be one's unshirkable responsibility

1 pitiable

2 likable

3 memorable

1 disorderly

2 messy

3 chaotic

1 great furnace (metaphor for a place where character is forged)

1 Minister of Education

2 Director of Education Department

1 to disappear like a stone dropped into the sea

2 to vanish forever without trace

1 salad (loanword)

1 to mishear

2 to hear wrongly

1 fractal

1 prey

1 the philosophy of materialism, doctrine that physical matter is the whole of reality

1 to serve in the army

1 Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真[Nu:3 zhēn] people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty

1 man-eating (beast)

2 to eat people

3 fig. to oppress the people

1 envoy charge with promoting agriculture (in Han dynasty)

1 panic

2 panicky

3 panic-stricken

1 to harrow

2 to break the ground with a hoe