jpdb beta

is it?; isn't it?; be; is

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eerie; spooky

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wintry; very cold-looking (e.g. landscape); bleak (e.g. room, street); desolate; empty (of furnishings)

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unshapely; unsightly; clumsy; unpresentable; uncouth; awkward

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skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath

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hill; height; knoll; bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game

6

Japanese and Chinese poetry; poetry; poems

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white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb

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contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation

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lightly; nimbly; with agility; casually; readily; regularly

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to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard

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to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)

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gorilla (Gorilla spp., esp. western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla)

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... all over again (repeating the same failure)

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ehehe (embarrassed laugh); ahaha

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the end (of); powder

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to get narrower; to contract

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thoroughly; carefully; deliberately; seriously; fully

2

trousers; pants

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uneasy; unsure; unreliable; untrustworthy; (arch.) nervous; (arch.) impatient

2

tottering; staggering; faltering; reeling

2

rash assumption; hasty conclusion

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bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread

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to take measures (in face of events being anticipated); to come to an agreement (in bargaining, etc.); to strike a bargain; to clap one's hands together

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must not; do not

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absconding; taking oneself off; slipping out (home) unnoticed early (e.g. from work, out of parties, etc.)

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clever; intelligent; well-behaved (esp. children and pets); obedient; (arch.) good (with words)

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from the beginning

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(looking) blankly; vacantly; dazedly; (staring) in puzzlement; with a look of amazement

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uh-huh; sniff-sniff

4

to take someone's hand

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sign; indication

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one or two; a few; small number

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to carry out (of somewhere); to transport; to take out

3

head

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slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)

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confectionery; sweets; candy; cake

1

(in) one's absence

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without permission; without notice

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truck; lorry

3

to employ; to hire; to charter

1

at a stroke; with a single swoop

1

to become entangled; to become complicated; to get mixed up; to screw up; to get caught up in

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because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...

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very; extremely; exceedingly; top; highest; best

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to be sacked; to be fired; to be dismissed; to be beheaded

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since; this person

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to take; to carry (something) away; to bear

2

giving two or three light tugs (or pushes); (arch.) worrying about; (arch.) moping; (arch.) suddenly angry; (arch.) feeling a surge of anger

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tribute

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