jpdb beta

philosophy

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illiteracy; ignorance; arhat; someone who has attained nirvana

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sharp; keen; acute

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thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words

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(one's) inner voice; voice of one's heart; what one really thinks

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to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous

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I agree with you; it is as (someone) says

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straightforwardly; readily; without hesitation

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since some time ago; for some time; for quite a while

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speech and conduct; words and deeds

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consistency

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fool

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to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)

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to go; to come; to be defeated; to collapse; to be annoyed; to be nonplussed

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kapow; bang; bulging; filled to bursting; prostitute (catering to Occupation soldiers in Japan after WWII)

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to clap

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difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

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unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible

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show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture

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vanity

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vivid (memory, description, etc.); fresh; graphic; fresh (blood, scar, etc.); still new; recent

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propaganda activities

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human habitation

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hideout; secret base of operations; safe house

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person in the same line of business; people in the same trade; the trade; the profession

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to start with the looks; to get the trappings right as the first step; to start (at the wrong end) by focusing on the superficial

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thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

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anything and everything; just about everything

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consistency; coherence; one kan (approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb); one piece of sushi

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hesitation; bewilderment; illusion; delusion; inability to reach enlightenment

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silence (not speaking); muteness

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opinion; view; comment

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objection; refutation; rebuttal; counterargument

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all you want; as much as one wants

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towards; against; regarding; in contrast with

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prevailing view; common opinion; general consideration

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shyness; fear of strangers; stranger anxiety

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stage fright; social anxiety disorder; social phobia

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to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect

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tension; mental strain; nervousness

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extroverted; outgoing

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yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration

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to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to take (e.g. shower); to bask in (e.g. the sun); to suffer (e.g. an attack); to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise); to have heaped upon

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bronze statue; bronze sculpture

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to build; to construct

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birth-place; home town

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honorary citizen

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worldly; secular

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spewing; gushing; spouting; eruption; effusion

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at this stage; at this point; now (contrasting with the past)

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