jpdb beta

experienced; well-versed

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to walk behind someone; to follow in someone's footsteps

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pretending to respect (someone) while in fact staying distant; keeping at arm's length; avoiding (something unpleasant); shying away from; giving (the batter) an "intentional walk"

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madder red; dark red; crimson

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being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

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Eh?; What?; Come on!; Damn!

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survival; survivor; relic

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first place

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title; name; degree

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other intention; hidden purpose; ulterior motive; ill will; malice

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don't worry about it; forget about it

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for military use

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mediation; good offices; go-between; building a bridge

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confrontation; to face; to confront; to encounter

1

flush; blush

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root; basis; foundation

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to feel ashamed

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impudent; shameless; brazen; cheeky; presumptuous

2

to be shut; to close; to be firm (of a body, face, etc.); to be well-knit; to be locked; to tighten

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dead of night; shades of night; black of night

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antiquity; the previous era

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starting point; origin

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to get in someone's pocket; to help oneself to someone's wallet; to curry favour (favor); to butter up; to get in close to one's opponent

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sender (e.g. of mail)

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call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)

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name and address (on an envelope, etc.); (addressee's) name; addressee

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list; enumeration

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to trick; to cheat; to deceive

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plot; intrigue; scheme; conspiracy

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strategy; artifice

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being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net

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to write down one after another; to enumerate; to list; to write at length; to write on and on; to go on writing

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favour; favor

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Zen dialogue; Zen questions and answers

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vulgar; in poor taste; cheap; low-brow

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protuberance; bulge; protrusion; rise; uplift; upheaval

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unlimited; endless; boundless; infinite

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to hint at; to intimate; to suggest; to allude to; to imply

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blind (devotion, faith, etc.); reckless

2

rational

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sexual desire; sex drive; lust

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appetite (for food)

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to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be among; to be one of

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desire; want; will; wish; urge; craving

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giving one's name; self-introduction; announcing one's name, rank, lineage, etc. (of a samurai on the battlefield); name given to male members of the nobility and samurai class upon coming of age; Japanese kanji reading used in names

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

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to extol; to sing the praises of; to celebrate; to declare; to stipulate; to express

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perpetual youth and longevity; immortality

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to sing; to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem; to express in the form of a poem; to recite (a poem)

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thousand years; millennium; (fig.) long time

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