jpdb beta

sweet-and-sour pork

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chicken meat

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daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)

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rearing; training; nurture; cultivation; promotion

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discord; (on) bad terms (with)

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to insult; to say something insulting about; to bad-mouth

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excuse; explanation

2

harmless and inoffensive; bland; tepid

1

selection; choice; option

1

start; commencement; beginning; initiation

1

sign; signal; cue

1

quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to

5

obstacle

1

to misjudge; to mistake; to misjudge (someone); to overestimate; to miss seeing; to overlook

1

too terrible to look at; unbearable to look at

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quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument

9

development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life

1

each other; one another

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to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other

1

constructive

2

centre; center; pivot; central nervous system

1

dispute; controversy; debate; argument; taking issue

1

serious; not joking; straight

3

master; expert; expert board game player (chess, go, shogi, etc.)

1

to talk (a person) down; to confute

1

unconsciousness; unconscious; involuntary; the unconscious (psychoanalysis)

2

mounting (animal behaviour); asserting dominance

1

one's chance; the right time; target; objective

1

foolish thought; (one's own) thought; (one's own) idea

2

modest; humble

2

wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza

1

to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect

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most important

2

another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to

1

to deal with (a person); to treat; to deal with (a problem); to handle; to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to deal in

2

when it becomes; when it comes to

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talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; talk show; toque

4

(cutting) with a single stroke; lopping off (branches, etc.); (cutting hair) short; drastically (slash a budget, etc.); resolutely; ruthlessly (discard, etc.)

1

to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard

1

only; just

1

example; illustration; precedent

1

bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh

1

to let something (or somebody) go past; to do too much

1

now; come (now); well

1

tornado

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climate change

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natural disaster; cataclysm

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plausible (but untrue); credible (e.g. of a lie); specious; truthy

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gossip

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certainly; surely; undoubtedly; just; precisely; exactly

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