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HSK
to search (a place, a database, online etc); to search for (sth)
HSK 5
trail / clues / thread (of a story)
HSK 5
to explore; to probe
HSK 6
to ask for compensation / to claim damages / claim for damages
HSK 7-9
fuse (for explosive)
HSK 7-9
to think deeply / to ponder
HSK 7-9
to feel about / to grope about / to fumble / to do things slowly
HSK 7-9
to ask / to demand
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to act without taking time to think; to react instantly; to fire from the hip
HSK 7-9
nimble
HSK 7-9
you might as well (do it) / simply / just
HSK 7-9
Luxor, city in Egypt
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *索* | 索* | *索
surname Suo / abbr. for 索馬里|索马里, Somalia
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *索* | 索* | *索
to search / to demand / to ask / to exact / large rope / isolated
rope
index
to search for sth / to seek / to quest / to explore
to retrieve (data) / to look up / retrieval / search
Thor (Norse god of thunder)
Sony
suspension bridge
to blackmail / to extort
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943
Sofia, capital of Bulgaria
ropeway
spermatic cord (anatomy)
to ask for / to request / to demand
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
Picasso
to demand sb's life
cable / hawser / mooring rope
Curaçao
a noose for hanging criminals
Somalia
Limassol, Cyprus / Lemesos
Kosovo
(Tw) Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau
(loanword) peso (monetary unit)
to seek / to demand
Sofia (capital of Bulgaria)
notochord (anatomy)
lit. looking for a fine horse using only a picture (idiom) / fig. to do things along rigid, conventional lines / to try and find sth with the help of a clue
Gasol (name) / Pau Gasol (1980-), former Spanish professional basketball player (NBA) / Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player
dull / insipid
Mesopotamia
to exact bribes / to solicit bribes / to demand bribes / to extort
to ask a price / to charge / asking price
dull / dry
to seek an answer / to look for an explanation / to explain / explanation
to rack one's brains (for apt wording etc) (idiom)
Roseau, the capital of Commonwealth of Dominica
to mull over (idiom) / to think long and hard
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Russian composer, composer of Pictures at an Exhibition
(literary) desolate and lonely
zip line
bleak / desolate / melancholy
Thorpe (name)
dull and insipid
Hagia Sophia (the main cathedral of Constantinople, subsequently the major mosque of Istanbul)
Soros (name) / George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist
trembling
full-text search
Aesop (trad. 620-560 BC), Greek slave and storyteller, supposed author of Aesop's fables
search engine
axon (long thin axis of nerve cell)
(old) to ask for recompense (for personal services rendered)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Sochi (city on the Black Sea in Russia)
Burkina Faso
full-text search
space exploration
Denisovan, an extinct species of human
zip line
Chordata, phylum containing vertebrates
Sodom
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago
Soria, Spain
exploratory
(Tw) (loanword) peso (monetary unit)
to have no interest in sth
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
Ethiopia (Tw)
tightrope walking
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温
to crowdsource information about sb or sth (typically as a form of vigilantism resulting in doxing)
blackmail
Burkina Faso (Tw)
zip line
varicocele (medicine)
(Tw) Somalia
Mato Grosso, a state of Brazil
ransomware (computing)
Transcaucasia, aka the South Caucasus
El Paso (Texas)
Nassau, capital of The Bahamas (Tw)
ski-lift
Salisbury plain
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus Rex
Université Paris IV / the Sorbonne

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