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1 worthy predecessor

2 distinguished person of the past

3 former sage

1 rigid conventions

2 reactionary framework

1 to be trusted both at home and abroad (idiom)

1 Amun, deity in Egyptian mythology, also spelled Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imen

1 slum area

2 ghetto

1 consul

1 Song of the Earth

2 Das Lied von der Erde

1 Syriac language (from c. 2nd century BC)

2 the Syriac script

1 Arctic Circle

1 leprosy

2 Hansen's disease

1 lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth

2 many new things emerge in rapid succession

1 duty

1 to deny a detainee visitation privileges

1 Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷|离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞

1 restless, agitated

1 using the weak to defeat the strong (idiom); to win from a position of weakness

1 data-direct (in LAN emulation)

1 always

1 fully booked

2 every seat taken