jpdb beta

to surprise; to frighten; to create a stir

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one night; all night; overnight; one evening

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staying out overnight without giving notice; spending night(s) away from home without permission (leave)

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morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning

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opening ceremony (of the school term)

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one night; one evening; all night; overnight

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cellophane tape; adhesive tape; Sellotape

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to paste; to stick; to affix; to station; to post

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surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality

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(addressee's) name; (recipient's) name and address

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blank slate; tabula rasa

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insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy

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persistent; obstinate; tenacious; relentless; insistent; importunate

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to become distant; to recede

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based on

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network

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same year in school

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student in a higher grade; upperclassman

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school badge; school emblem; school insignia

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to shake (from fear, cold, excitement, etc.); to shudder; to tremble

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to approach; to draw near; to get close; to get acquainted with; to get closer to; to get to know

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to recover; to rally; to improve; to pick up

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to look at the long term

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furthermore; adding to the above-mentioned; not quite; not very good; lacking

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returning tit for tat; retaliating

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to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)

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grounds; foundation; authority; support; prop; something upon which to rely

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aizuchi; back-channeling; interjections indicating that one is paying attention; two smiths hammering at an object in turn

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closing time; lockup; curfew

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any; at all; in the least; even in a slight degree; ever

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to straighten oneself; to straighten one's clothes and one's posture; to adopt a more serious attitude

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misdirection

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something like ...; something called ...

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unfair

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to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege

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yuki-onna (spirit in Japanese folklore); snow woman

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quite unlike; not bearing the slightest resemblance

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(physical) appearance (of a person); one's face and figure

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comment

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exterior; outside; outer; external; lateral

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previously presented; already shown; previously posed (exam question); aforementioned

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(on) land; ground; shore; track-and-field events

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another school; other schools

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professor; teaching; instruction

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just after a holiday break; the first day after the holidays

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to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard

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fantastic; fanciful

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to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)

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to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)

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rare case

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