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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
(idiom) to act without taking time to think; to react instantly; to fire from the hip
HSK 7-9
to think deeply / to ponder
HSK 7-9
to ask / to demand
HSK 7-9
you might as well (do it) / simply / just
HSK 7-9
nimble
HSK 7-9
fuse (for explosive)
HSK 7-9
to feel about / to grope about / to fumble / to do things slowly
HSK 7-9
dull and insipid
to rack one's brains (for apt wording etc) (idiom)
Transcaucasia, aka the South Caucasus
Somalia
exploratory
rig
Burkina Faso
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温
Aesop (trad. 620-560 BC), Greek slave and storyteller, supposed author of Aesop's fables
Mesopotamia
aerial ropeway / cable car
(Tw) Somalia
dull / dry
Lesotho (Tw)
index
(onom.) rustling sound (of clothing, leaves, snow etc) / faint noises
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
Yamoussoukro, capital of Ivory Coast (Tw)
to retrieve (data) / to look up / retrieval / search
to seek an answer / to look for an explanation / to explain / explanation
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
Soria, Spain
to blackmail / to extort
Thor (Norse god of thunder)
rope
(Tw) (loanword) peso (monetary unit)
Burkina Faso (Tw)
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
dull / insipid
Braşov, Romania
Sofia, capital of Bulgaria
Soros (name) / George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist
Gasol (name) / Pau Gasol (1980-), former Spanish professional basketball player (NBA) / Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player
chordata
to ask a price / to charge / asking price
to exact bribes / to solicit bribes / to demand bribes / to extort
Roseau, the capital of Commonwealth of Dominica
bleak / desolate / melancholy
cable / hawser / mooring rope
search warrant (Tw)
(Tw) Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau
(loanword) peso (monetary unit)
to search for sth / to seek / to quest / to explore
trembling
to search for subtle traces / to ponder
Lesotho
Guinea-Bissau (Tw)
a noose for hanging criminals
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), famous Russian chemist and polymath
a lasso / noose
claimant country (in a territorial dispute)
Caucasus / Caucasian
Sophocles (496–406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus Rex
tightrope walking
to ask for / to request / to demand
to inquire into / to ascertain
sling; hoisting rope / suspension cable
Thorpe (name)
to seek / to demand
Transcaucasia, aka the South Caucasus
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943
to demand payment / to extort / to trace / to seek / to pursue / to explore
ropeway
search party
to have no interest in sth
Caucasus Mountains
Stonehenge / Salisbury stone circle
to mull over (idiom) / to think long and hard
notochord (anatomy)
(Dirk) Kempthorne (US Senator from Idaho)
Sofia (capital of Bulgaria)
Picasso
axon (long thin axis of nerve cell)
Sony
spermatic cord (anatomy)
suspension bridge
Luxor, city in Egypt
Curaçao
space exploration
zip line
Chordata, phylum containing vertebrates
Nassau, capital of The Bahamas (Tw)
zip line
to crowdsource information about sb or sth (typically as a form of vigilantism resulting in doxing)
varicocele (medicine)
(literary) desolate and lonely
ransomware (computing)
Denisovan, an extinct species of human

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