jpdb beta

to hold an opinion

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assertiveness; positiveness; initiative; spirit of enterprise

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force; vigor; influence; authority; impetus; momentum

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(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it

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so far as

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capable of anything; liable to do

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vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard

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to stick into; to pierce; to run into

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to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter

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to use as an intermediary; to worry; to mind; to care

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acquaintance

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to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other

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difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect

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odd; strange; queer; peculiar

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even if; even though; however; no matter how

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to make muddy (of a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to make ambiguous; to evade (e.g. the point); to be noncommittal about

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suddenly; abruptly; deliberately; slowly; gently

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different opinion; objection

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bonds (between people); (emotional) ties; relationship; tether; fetters

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after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means

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to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to

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being startled, surprised or afraid; panic; trepidation

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friend; acquaintance

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from the beginning; from the first; all along; of course

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relative; relation; kin

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to visit; to call on; to arrive (season, time, situation, etc.); to come; (arch.) to make a sound; (arch.) to send a letter

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rare (or peculiar) animal

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feeling; sense; impression

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it seems that; as if

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son

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ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished

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to have a cramp; to be pulled too tight

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mother tongue; native language; protolanguage; parent language

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language learning ability; foreign language skills; linguistic ability

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to polish; to shine; to brush (e.g. teeth); to refine (e.g. a skill); to improve; to cultivate

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picture book

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to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count

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joe; jaw

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eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey

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picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage

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to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)

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this much; this amount

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word; vocabulary

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purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not

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possibly; by some possibility; perhaps

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to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)

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busy; having no (free) time

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little by little

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to read (a book); to open (a book) to read; to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)

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determination; resolution

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