jpdb beta

to answer a question

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expressing one's feelings; communicating one's intention; declaration of intent

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(having) life-and-death power (over)

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power; authority; jurisdiction

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reading in a monotone; reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese

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to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp

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in one go; in one gulp; in one breath; immediately; instantly; right away

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busy; hurried; confused; flurried

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license; permit; licence; certificate

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to be in danger of; to be liable to

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entering; setting (of the Sun); containing; content; income; beginning

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concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works

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departure; takeoff

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to look towards

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goal; target; aim; mark; sign; landmark

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n-storied building

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kitchen door; back door; service door; host's entrance to a tea-ceremony room

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to sell

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demolition; pulling down; destruction; dismantling

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just before; on the verge of; on the brink of; just in front of; just ahead of

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more; much more; step; rung; paragraph; passage

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midday; broad daylight

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season; time of year

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shallow; superficial; slight (wound); light (sleep); short (time); early

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shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

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ventilation fan; extractor fan

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many; much; plenty; hardly

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bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer

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bad smell; stink

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finger marks; dirt from the hands

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stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration

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what color

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(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front

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bleak; chilly; dreary

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to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal

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contrary to one's expectations

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two weeks; fortnight

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administrator; janitor; manager; custodian; executor

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upper left

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standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability

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scaffold; scaffolding; foothold; footing; foothold (e.g. in business); foundation

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boy; son; baby boy; young man

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senior high school student

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showy; loud; gay; flashy; gaudy

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exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)

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boys' high school

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life; living; I; me; student

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staringly; scrutinizing; scrutinising

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evaluation; criticism; commenting on; assessment; estimation

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to hold one's breath; to catch one's breath

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