jpdb beta

staring (e.g. eyes); goggling; glaring

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glancing (look)

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preferential treatment; special treatment; discrimination; express delivery; special delivery

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concerning the result (as opposed to the means used to achieve this result or the original goal)

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(pet) owner; keeper

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disastrous scene; terrible spectacle

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customer; client; patron

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abandonment; renunciation; resignation; abdication (responsibility, right)

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unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident

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to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen

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seeing through (a trick, someone's mind, etc.)

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checking answers (e.g. to homework problems); verifying one's answers

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to prepare; to provide; to set up; to establish; to organize

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pinch; crisis; tough spot; clothespin

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different thing; another question; different case

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child's tear-stained face

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to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle

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being prepared for a theoretical (ideological) argument; being armed with theoretical backing

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to deceive (with words); to cajole; to talk into; to explain away (e.g. unpleasant evidence); to argue away; to wheedle

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hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done

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shameful; disgraceful; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming; improper

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freedom of the person; personal freedom; personal liberty

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(with a) thump; (hanging) straight down

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snake; serpent; large snake

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frog; kajika frog (Buergeria buergeri)

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to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service

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skill

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being unhuman; being removed from humanity; being unworldly

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to the end; to the last

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Jesus (Christ)

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brother (usu. in names of films, companies, etc.)

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straw rope

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to tie; to bind; to fasten; to restrict (freedom); to tie down (with rules, regulations, etc.); to fetter

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earnest; kind; sincere

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finite; limited

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money; metal

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life story; personal narrative; story of one's life

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exchange; conversion

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to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher

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elevated (structure); overhead

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criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach

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years later

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to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)

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to exert oneself and win; to gain (victory)

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if so; in that case; in that situation

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to look downwards; to lower one's eyes

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furious facial expression

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water's surface

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to pass (time); to spend; to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol); (arch.) to take care of; (arch.) to support

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staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

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