jpdb beta

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to set aside

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multilateral; many-sided; diversified

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to get angry

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words of praise; eulogy; compliment

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to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check

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to try and do something; to attempt to do something

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back street; back alley; off-street

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darkness; the dark

2

electric light

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to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve

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ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very

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protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)

2

shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext

3

prey; catch; kill; spoils; trophy; loot

1

to glare; to dazzle; to glitter

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sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination

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tooth

3

location (of something); whereabouts; hiding place

2

dark night

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tie; necktie

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television station

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parking lot; car park; carpark; parking garage

1

difficult to ...; hard to ...

3

to stand (still) a while; to loiter; to stop

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feeling; mood

2

this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

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admirable; commendable; praiseworthy; laudable; brave; heroic

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occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally

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to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)

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bride

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puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex

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to have (someone) by the short hairs; to have something on (someone)

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to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)

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particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty

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half step; half a step

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to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach

2

to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase

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to suck (or draw) out; to aspirate

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to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter

2

to replace; to move; to change the position of

2

in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances

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psychology

2

study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science

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to emphasize; to attach importance to

2

to be grounded on; to be based on; to be due to; to originate from

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stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation

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mechanical

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distinction; discrimination; distinguishing; discernment

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an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging

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