machination (clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes)

plot, scheme

(literary) the first and 15th days of the lunar month

to spin; to make yarn / to spin (a tale); to assemble (e.g. words); to put together

地溝: graben / 地窖: hole dug in the ground, cellar / 治効: treatment efficacy / 知巧, 智巧: ingenuity / 知行: knowledge and action / 恥垢: smegma / 遅効: delayed effect

知行: a male given name

抗日: anti-Japanese

constitutional state, a state based on law

way of making things (especially of poetry, prose, etc.)

paper that has become useless; wastepaper / something that is useless