jpdb beta

stagnation; tie-up; standstill; congestion; delay; accumulation

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to rescue (someone); to save; to help (out of a difficulty); to save (spiritually); to redeem (from sin); to deliver (from suffering, distress, etc.)

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one round; one turn; one size (larger or smaller); one cycle of the twelve years of the Chinese zodiac

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taking part on the spur of the moment; participating without registering beforehand; last-minute entrant; specking on flower petals

3

please

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running-in; breaking in (e.g. engine, etc.); accustomizing; warming up

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large stage; grand stage; the big stage; grand setting

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corpse; dead person

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to be disordered; to be disarranged; to be discomposed; to be upset; to lapse into chaos (due to war, etc.)

2

introductory text; introductory essay

4

how about ...?; what about ...?; I wonder; I don't know

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master of ceremonies; MC; intermission between songs in which the performers speak to the audience; machining center; marginal cost

4

manuscript; copy; draft; notes; contribution

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proper; respectable; decent; (arch.) entirely; (arch.) completely; (arch.) wholly

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demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire

2

veteran staff; experienced staff; skilled staff

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deceptive advertising; misleading advertisement (presenting one's product as being better or cheaper than it really is)

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deep blue; bright blue; ghastly pale; pallid; white as a sheet

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extremely; terrifically; super

1

thickness

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to be reluctant (to do); to be unwilling (to do); to falter; to slacken; to have a frequent urge to defecate but difficulty passing stool; to suffer from tenesmus

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producer (film, TV, etc.)

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to request earnestly

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sense of responsibility

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farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation

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to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

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to take precautions; to set a guard against attack

1

writing (an essay, prose, etc.); composition; formal writing with little real meaning

1

congeniality; satisfaction; gratification; critical hit

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to become enthusiastic; to have a crush (on); to lose one's head (to); to become earnest

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to lose an easy game; to suffer an unexpected defeat; to lose information

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lead; leading; leading (in points, goals, etc.); getting ahead; lead (from a base); lead (of an article); lede

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sense of impending crisis; sense of danger

1

offense; offence; method of attack

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environment; surroundings; circumstances

3

carrying (on one's person or in the hand); mobile phone; cell phone

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silent profile (in cell phones); silent mode; vibrate mode

1

relatives; one's family; friends; members of the same organization; followers; henchmen

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look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting

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all present; all concerned; all of us

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regret; repentance

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hard-to-do; difficult; tough; awkward; tricky

1

completely changed; totally transformed

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straight-laced person; stubborn person

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to nod one's head; to nod yes; to agree

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favorite (to win); favourite; one's heart's desire; first choice; chocolate given to a man on Valentine's day out of genuine sentiment

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to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for

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to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend

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to raise; to lift; to boost; to enhance

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no; nope

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