jpdb beta

word root (the smallest portion of a larger word that holds meaning)

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to get mad

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Pretty Cure

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tête-à-tête

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reduced-period procedure; curtailed operation; short homeroom (at the beginning and end of the school day)

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readable

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children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards

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humiliation; indignity; affront; assault

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you must lose a fly to catch a trout; sometimes the best gain is to lose

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passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time; passing food from one pair of chopsticks to another (a breach of etiquette); two people picking up the same piece of food with chopsticks at the same time

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useless book learning; knowing the theory but not being able to put it into practice; (lit.) swim practice on a tatami mat

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one should be satisfied without desiring more wealth and rank than necessary; (lit.) waking, half a tatami mat; sleeping, a single tatami mat

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permanence; perpetuity

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in any case; anyhow; anyway; at any rate; at least

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hook turn

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to review; to rehearse; to practise; to practice

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all pain and no gain; lots of pain and not much gain

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one of them

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square centimeter; square centimetre

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capillary phenomenon

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square bracket; Japanese-style quotation marks

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plaster cast

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hearing casually; hearing by chance; learning by hearsay

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extreme

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antisocial behavior

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to forgive; to pardon; to excuse

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readability; legibility

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reciprocity; mutual benefit

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to turn everything into a joke; to continue joking to the last

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embalming

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loss of spirit; dejection

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(making a) telephone call; (having a) telephone conversation; calling; dialing

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confabulation; fabrication

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reinventing the wheel

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Jacobs

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to overlook in reading

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reciprocal relationship; mutually beneficial relations; relationship with benefits to both parties

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to raise the bar

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value system; set of values

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lyricism

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dilly-dallying and temporizing (temporising)

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perversity; cantankerous; eccentric

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to cut a conspicuous figure; to be by far the best

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criminal intent; malice

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worldly wisdom; knowledge of the ways of the world

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Them

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on-the-spot interview by surrounding reporters

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facility

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nose and mouth; muzzle (e.g. of a dog); nostril; nostrils; naris

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foolhardy courage

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