jpdb beta

frank; direct; plain; straightforward; point-blank; concise

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villain; baddie; the villain's part

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persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency

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wild idea; delusion

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ability; faculty

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to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

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to be affected; to be theatrical; to be pompous

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to give; to offer; to lift up; to hold up; to raise

1

near; close; beside; third person

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invisibly; secretly; privately

2

cavalry

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repulse; repelling (e.g. the enemy); driving back

2

one's post; one's position; one's station; one's round; one's beat; one's route

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cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship

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lack of sleep; insufficient sleep

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first thing in the afternoon

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service; duty; work

1

riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious

1

space alien; alien; extraterrestrial being

1

cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood

1

to find resolution; to be settled; to be collected; to be assembled; to be well arranged; to be in order

1

measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy

4

gaping (e.g. mouth, wound); (opening) wide; snapping up (e.g. bait); biting into (food); plagiarism; rip-off

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extension of a straight line; (conclusion) following as an extension of (an argument)

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in range; within the limits (of...); within (a) range

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to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)

2

go (board game)

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standard practice; playing by the book; established tactic; joseki (in go); standard sequence (esp. in a corner); standard move

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game

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flowchart; flow chart

5

coping method; approach; how to deal with (problem, etc.)

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device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement

2

strategy; tactics

2

common; ordinary; conventional; customary

2

creative; original

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technical; practical

1

to surpass; to outstrip; to excel

1

three flat objects (sheets of paper, pieces of cloth, etc.); cutting a fish into two boneless fillets and a piece with the skeleton

1

sole; single; solo; independence; singleness; singularity

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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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mainstay; nucleus; key

3

isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine

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as you want; as you will

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to finger; to touch; to make changes to; to tinker with; to dabble in; to do as a hobby

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to try and do something; to attempt to do something

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separate; respective

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had better do so

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to pretend; to feign

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profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing

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all one's power (strength, energy, efforts); one's utmost

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