辭

to resign / to dismiss / to decline / to take leave / ballad (archaic poetic genre) / variant of 詞|词[ci2]

wording / way of expressing something / turn of phrase / diction

short speech given in proposing a toast

see 託詞|托词[tuo1 ci2]

not to be shirked without dishonor (idiom) / incumbent / bounden (duty)

to decline (an appointment, invitation etc)

to admit responsibility and resign

variant of 悼詞|悼词[dao4 ci2]

language; use of words; phraseology / articles; essays; writing

to speak forcefully and with justice (idiom); to argue with the courage of one's convictions / also written 振振有詞|振振有词

an elegy / elegiac words

tactful expression / to politely decline

to interpret the divinatory trigrams

strongly-worded

term of respect / honorific title / honorific (in grammar)

Chu Ci, the Songs of Chu (ancient book of poems, collected during Han but esp. from country of Chu c. 500 BC)

If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左傳|左传); one can always trump up a charge against sb / Give a dog a bad name, then hang him.

literary auxiliary particle, comes at the beginning of a sentence

to send a message

adjective

to decline with sincere thanks