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1 servant

1 to extrapolate

1 fleeting years (idiom)

1 sardine (loanword)

1 student on duty

2 prefect

1 Dombra or Tambura, Kazakh plucked lute

1 moderately affluent

2 well-off

3 a period of peace and prosperity

1 crosstalk

2 to overhear

1 states of south China in different historical periods

2 proverbially perpetual arch-enemies

1 an intravenous drip

1 to follow old patterns

2 to imitate existing models

3 to continue along the same lines

1 keynote speech

1 monograph

2 specialized text

1 to entrust

2 trust bond (finance)

1 transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)

2 characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown)

3 transcription (linguistics)

4 to transcribe phonetic symbols

1 direct and plainspoken (idiom); blunt

2 straightforward

1 to connect

2 to join

3 to assemble

1 to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.

2 It ain't necessarily so.

1 cross-stitch (embroidery)