jpdb beta

to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off

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counterintelligence

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antipathy; antagonism; animosity; revulsion; ill feeling

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efficacy; benefit; efficiency; effect; result; success

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misedashi; debut of an apprentice geisha; ceremony in which a shikomi becomes a maiko

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loyalty; devotion

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the best one can do; one's best effort; with all one's might; to the best of one's ability

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to concern; to be related

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the ... in question

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tattling; telling on (someone)

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(Meiji era) official responsible for court ceremonies

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vice-minister (Meiji period); undersecretary

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well-known

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one day; (on) a certain day

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in a whisper; in a low voice; in undertones

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bitter experience; misery; distress; grief; sad thoughts; hardship

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to be unable to let pass unnoticed; to be unable to be indifferent; to be unable to just watch (without doing anything)

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child

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duckweed; rootless person; wanderer

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thoughtless; rash; hasty; imprudent

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sentiment; emotions; one's feelings; one's heart

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cheap; inexpensive; pure; honest; upright

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success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence

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woman (writer, artist, aviator, etc.)

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sensation; feeling; tendency; propensity

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it's precisely for that reason that ...; which is precisely why ...

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gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase

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to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail

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intellect; intelligence

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suspicion; jealousy

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stick-to-itiveness; perseverance; radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily); root; indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs)

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moat; fosse; canal; ditch

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leaf; blade (of grass); (pine) needle

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moat; fosse; canal; ditch

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to bring; to take (something) along; to fetch; to get

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mule

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careful thought; consideration; deliberation; reflection; rumination; pondering

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so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much

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directly; in person; firsthand

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the Emperor; His Majesty; the government; the authorities; proprietress; hostess

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suddenly disappears somewhere

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that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that

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within one; at heart

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deplorable; alarming; grievous; lamentable

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situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances

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one person; ordinary; common

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to remonstrate; to admonish (someone) for; to advise (someone) not to; to warn against

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cause; origin; source

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reason; reasoning power; (one's) sense

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dosa (ill will, antipathy); irateness; anger

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