jpdb beta

difficult problem; challenge

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to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with

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slightly; faintly

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handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler

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bundle; bunch; sheaf

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to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

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to blush; to redden

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holiday; day off; sleep; rest; Good night

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hem; (trouser) cuff; bottom part; bottom edge; foot (of a mountain); tips (of hair)

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cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing

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dust; one ten-billionth

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to remain in memory (of sounds and words); to linger in one's ears

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lovely; sweet

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crabbily; unsociably

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peerless; matchless; unparalleled; unrivalled; unequalled; incomparable

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to lean against; to lean on; to recline on; to lie heavy (on the stomach); to be uneasily digested

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something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts

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matter; thing; affair; circumstance

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we; us; I; me

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nasty; disgusting; detestable; unpleasant; disagreeable; creepy

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he; she; that guy

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disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination

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what is it (that); the meaning of something; what something is about

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right; correct; proper; righteous; just

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to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously

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to pay attention to another's needs; to attend to; to fuss about; to take into consideration

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willingly; voluntarily; on one's own accord

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real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally

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to smell; to smell of; to have a smell

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aroma; fragrance; scent; smell

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epilogue

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neighborhood; vicinity; environs; approaching

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body; group; party; gang; troupe; troop

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road over a mountain pass

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to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over

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stretching a rope around; roping off; one's turf; domain; territory (of an animal)

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bandit; brigand

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width; breadth; freedom (e.g. of thought); latitude; gap; difference (e.g. in price)

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borderline; boundary

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jumping about; rampancy; domination

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traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist

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to turn one's hand to; to reach out one's hand; to get involved in; to make a move on; to strike; to beat

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merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper

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arms; armament

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monk; friar

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few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom

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monk; priest; sangha (the Buddhist community)

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to spit

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wolf (Canis lupus); wolf in sheep's clothing; womanizer

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very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly

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