jpdb beta

to the last; persistency; thoroughness

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December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar

3

twenty-eighth day of the month; twenty-eight days

3

to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to act as innocent

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to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt

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and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that

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hesitation; bewilderment; illusion; delusion; inability to reach enlightenment

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to encourage; to cheer

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at a loss for words; stumped for words

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consideration; concern; fear; worry; solicitude

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to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)

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sleepiness; drowsiness

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to be blown off; to blow off; to blow away; to vanish; to disappear

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puppy; small dog

3

early; quickly; promptly

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to glide; to slide (e.g. on skis); to fail (an examination); to bomb (when telling a joke); to drop; to go down

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chopsticks

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lightly; easily; carelessly

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sports ground; playing field; playground

4

sound of something striking repeatedly (e.g. wooden clappers); something small hopping repeatedly; touching lightly and repeatedly; punctuation marks such as the dakuten; Chonchon; South American mythical bird

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to obtain; to procure

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to produce a sound

10

to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (e.g. boredom); to conceal (e.g. one's sorrow with a smile); to shift (the conversation)

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to grow numb with cold

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warming (limbering) up; warming-up exercises

1

was; were

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ouch

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iron rod; iron bar; iron club; horizontal bar (gymnastics)

2

stake; post; pile; (arch.) stump

2

injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss

2

stealthily; secretly

1

jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)

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big problem

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languidly; loosely

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to close one's eyes; to lower one's eyelids; to shut one's eyes; to die; to breathe one's last

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bottom; buttocks

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work in a Zen temple (e.g. cleaning, working in the fields)

1

cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible

1

to lie down; to stretch out; to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait

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to fall off; to tumble down

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detour; roundabout way

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to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal

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to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue

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cancer

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unpleasant; awkward; embarrassing; uneasy

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absurd; unreasonable; excessive; very; extremely; excessively

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empty; vacant; void

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everything; anything; nothing

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no objection; nothing to criticize (criticise)

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to become stiff (of muscles); to get absorbed in; to develop a passion for; to be elaborate; to be intricate

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