jpdb beta

most likely contender; prime candidate; top prospect; leading candidate

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to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with

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success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence

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to follow in succession; to happen one after another

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marriage partner; spouse; wife-to-be; husband-to-be; future spouse

4

why; oh; no!; quit it!; stop!

2

to poke fun at; to make fun of; to send up

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happy; auspicious; propitious; naive

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to pray; to wish

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to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind

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collision; crash; running into; conflict; quarrel; clashing

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talkative; loose-lipped; persiflage; frivolous talk

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princess

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next-door neighbors; (living, sitting) next to each other

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marriage of convenience; marriage for political reasons

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one's home; hometown; native place; birthplace

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foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land

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to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence

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vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy

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close; intimate; on good terms

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to indicate; to show; to point to

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assertion; declaration; affirmation

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with a snap; (break) cleanly; (reject) sternly; flatly; smartly (e.g. of dressing up well)

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beatitude; supreme bliss

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strange; unfamiliar; unknown; unfamiliarity; strangeness; stranger

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conversation; conference (usu. between important people); discussion; interview

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drawing room; parlour; parlor; reception office

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lady attendant; lady's maid; waiting maid

4

to take someone along; to be accompanied (by)

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surely; certainly; without doubt

2

golden (colour, color)

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skillfully; admirably; really well; excellently

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eye color; eye colour

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beryl

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blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature

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confident; assured; self-assured; bullish (e.g. market)

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doll; puppet; figure

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pretty; charming; lovely; adorable

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to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind

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nod deeply; glugging; drinking deeply

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(very) beginning; start

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cough; ahem

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to thrust before; to thrust at

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temptation; allurement; lure; enticement; seduction

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taste; elegance; appearance; air; the likes of ...; lowly people such as ...

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not knowing one's social position; overweening; overreaching; forgetting who one is

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knowing; (an) acquaintance

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extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness

4

serious crime; grave sin

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to admonish; to persuade; to warn; to remonstrate

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