jpdb beta

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

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calm; serenity; tranquillity; tranquility

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to come out all right; to take care of itself; to be OK

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I agree with you; it is as (someone) says

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trying to think of a way (to); devising means (to); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing

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weather; look of the sky; situation; turn of affairs; signs

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our

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ability; performance; efficiency

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

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killing two birds with one stone

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thinking; thought; idea; notion; intention; plan

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perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility

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until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it

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fall; decline; lowering; deterioration; degradation

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to step back; to move back; to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to resign; to retire

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to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple

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habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle

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tragedy; tragic drama; tragic play; tragedy; calamity; disaster

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to lose one's life

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ringleader; main culprit; main cause; source

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to pass (of time); to elapse

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close; intimate; on good terms

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teacher (classroom)

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to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall

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brat

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signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking

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

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actually; really; truly; in practice; practically

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ingenuity; resourcefulness

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ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery

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(political) power; authority; influence

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cruel; brutal; savage; barbarous

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to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than

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in many cases

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fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification

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Yang energy; spirit

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Kuroiwa

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soul; spirit

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to draw or pull something towards oneself (e.g. chair)

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earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)

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to dig out; to pick up

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January; first month of the lunar calendar

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subordinate person

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command; direction

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to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

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sword-shaped stoneware found in archeological sites in eastern Japan dating to the end of the Jomon period

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to pass; to pass by

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subordinate; underling; henchman; minion

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public works

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grinder

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