jpdb beta

substitution (for someone else); substitute; stand-in; scapegoat; sacrifice

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to be lit (e.g. candle, lamp, light bulb); to be lighted; to be burning

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one's social position; one's place; one's standing

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taciturn; reticent; quiet; silent; untalkative

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spokesperson; speaker (for someone); mouthpiece; voice (e.g. for the ordinary citizen)

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to interrupt; to butt in

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useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated

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continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence

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to kidnap

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plantation

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pillage; plunder; looting; robbery

1

traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist

3

odd; strange; queer; peculiar

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to be led by; to be headed by

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failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards

2

outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state

1

mostly; almost; nearly; roughly; approximately; about

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to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)

2

party leader

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or

2

illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault

2

truth; real situation

1

darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy

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carrion; decaying flesh; tainted meat

2

to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)

3

Mund; Mundt

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and; thereupon; because of that

3

like; as if; the same as

1

consideration; guess; conjecture; judgment; judgement

1

to serve; to work for; to attend

1

dishonor; dishonour; disgrace; shame

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suspicion

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atrocity; (arch.) treason

1

to accuse somebody; to charge someone

2

innocence; guiltlessness; absence of the fact; insubstantiality; (arch.) insincerity; (arch.) dishonesty

1

to atone for; to expiate; to redeem; to make up for; to compensate for

2

weathering; fading (of memories); efflorescence

3

firmly rooted; deep-seated

1

loitering; roaming; sauntering; wandering about; prowling

1

right in the center (centre)

2

immediately following

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to pin a crime on

3

plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice

3

the person in question; the person themselves; said person

2

to wet; to moisten; to dampen

1

after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)

1

to set fire (to)

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to rot away; to crumble to dust; to decay completely; to die in obscurity

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being settled; coming to a conclusion

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animal

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