jpdb beta

easy; simple; simple (way of thinking, etc.); simple-minded; soft; lax

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acquaintance; appreciative friend

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to make a speech; to address

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strong spirit; mettle; backbone; guts; fighting spirit

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leaf; blade (of grass); (pine) needle; marijuana; cannabis

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cannot help (doing, etc.); cannot resist; must not ...; should not ...; must ...; have to ...

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half share; half a man

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to look daunted; to look embarrassed; to be disappointed

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deep in the mountains; mountain recesses

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special training; intensive training; crash course

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to become decrepit; to be in one's dotage; to become dull; to lose one's astuteness; to lose one's touch; to become senile

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munching; crunching; scratching (an itch)

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to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle

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to stay indoors; to be confined indoors

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to polish one's skills

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to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master

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at any rate; anyhow; anyway; in any case; because; as you know

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megalomania

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to be to the point; to hit the mark; to be relevant

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to be tired of; to be sick of; to get fed up with

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to shake one's head

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digestion (of food); digestion (of information); assimilation; consumption; absorption; (arch.) losing one's form and turning into something else

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useless; worthless; absurd; baloney

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one portion; one serving; adult; grown-up; fully fledged; established

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diviner; fortune teller; soothsayer

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touching; moving; painful

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flowers and fruit; blossom and fruit; name and reality; form and content; appearance and substance

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to bloom; to flower; to blossom; to open

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to manage; to settle; to dispose of; to deal with; to arrange

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root (of a plant); stump (of a tree); root (of a problem, etc.); base

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to begin to

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beginning of the year; the oldest person

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after having come this far; now that we've come this far

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patching (clothing); darning; cobbling together (other people's writings, thoughts, etc.); gathering

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... (years old) this year

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four years

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utmost limits; extremity; limit

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to polish up; to shine up

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day and night

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drill

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special mention

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great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious

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for no particular reason; for some reason or other; somehow or other

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arrowhead; target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack); the very moment (when); the point (of doing)

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to make progress; to develop; to evolve (method, style, etc.)

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to take care of; to bring up under one's personal care; to kill with one's own hands; to do personally; to handle (e.g. a job); to request that someone deal with (something)

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one's real father; natural father; biological father

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to make (somewhere) one's final home; to make (a place) one's final resting place; to do (something) for the rest of one's life; to devote (the rest of) one's life to (something)

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by nature; by birth; naturally; natural; innate

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waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away

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