jpdb beta

grandiose; exaggerated

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to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count

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to garnish; to accompany (as a card does a gift); to add to as support; to prop up; to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.); (arch.) to mimic

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training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices

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poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious

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person working for someone else (followed by job title); hired

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chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)

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to happen to ride together; to share a vehicle; to (operate a) carpool

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meeting; assembly; association; conjunction

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to go to; to proceed to; to leave for

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to probe; to search; to sound out; to investigate

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here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up

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to dodge (e.g. a question); to evade; to sidestep; to give (someone) the slip

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to get used (to); to get familiar with; to get skillful with

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spreading around (news, rumor, etc.); making widely known; making public; publicizing; proclaiming

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unexpectedly; surprisingly

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in the belly; in one's heart of hearts

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victory or defeat; match; contest; game

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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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to confuse (someone); to befuddle; to bewilder; to mystify; to throw up a smokescreen; (lit.) to surround with smoke

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strictly speaking

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mountain range; mountain belt

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hospital; clinic; doctor's office; doctor's surgery; infirmary

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denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like

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provincial city; provincial town; suburban city; regional towns and cities

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to be visible to; to be seen by; to meet one's eyes

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to throw at; to turn; to raise

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(please) look; see; (please) try to do

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everyday; always; at all times; frequently

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all that one has; all that there is; the whole

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to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off

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already; now; no longer; not any more

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intently; single-mindedly; devotedly; solely; earnestly; with all one's heart

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to be exhausted; to be tired out

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as soon as; right after

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awareness; realization

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to subsist; to keep on living

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now that; since; so long as; because

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wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do

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to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up

2

couscous; cuscus (variety of phalanger)

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sanity; consciousness; soberness

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irritating; irritated; frustrating; vexing; (feeling things are) not quick enough; (feeling) too slow-going

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mind reading

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formulaic; stereotyped; hackneyed

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to throw at; to throw something at a person; to throw a person down

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so to speak

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fighting windmills; tilting at windmills; mimicking a wrestling match by oneself (as a form of street performance, etc.)

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infinity; infinitude; eternity; infinite; limitless

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to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)

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