jpdb beta

gateway to success; opening to honours; opening to honors

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envy

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(page) filler

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estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately

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editor (in publishing, etc.)

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one's own literary work

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to garnish; to accompany (as a card does a gift); to add to as support; to prop up; to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.); (arch.) to mimic

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good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial

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very; greatly; exceedingly

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utmost limit; extremity; result

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very hungry; starving; fawning; bowing and scraping; giving in; being dented

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to send (something unsolicited); to send without the receiver's request

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thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...

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prize; award

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opportunity; chance; good time (to do); trend; tendency; momentum

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to be inflated with pride

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supplication; appeal; entreaty; petition

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appeal; entreaty; request

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details (of an incident, event, etc.); whole story; course of events; facts; circumstances; particulars

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literary world; literary circles

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to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively

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flaring up; burning hotly; flying into a rage; losing one's cool; opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes, mouth); (arch.) acting resolutely

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to bite at; to snap at; to jump at (e.g. an offer); to snap at; to hold on to; to cling to

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throughout Japan

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part (esp. of the body); region; site; cut (of meat)

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least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least

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tax

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10,000 yen

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10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various

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to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear

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blocking the way; standing in the way

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someone who is going

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composition; construction; formation; makeup; structure; organization

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idea; design; motif; conception; intention

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almost; roughly; approximately

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to spend time (on doing something)

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to knead well; to polish; to refine

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this area; around here

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dullard; indecisive person

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to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly

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to kill

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pilchard (esp. Japanese pilchard, Sardinops melanostictus); sardine

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bill; handbill; flier; flyer; leaflet; poster

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to put oneself on guard; to stand ready; to square off

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warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai

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swordsman; swordswoman; fencer

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in the city

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small; little; tiny

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dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)

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to smash up; to defeat crushingly

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