jpdb beta

foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse

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culling; putting down; slaughtering; killing

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confinement; imprisonment; incarceration

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(very) beginning; start

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to count on one's fingers

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scandal

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early; a little earlier than usual; a little faster than usual; slightly quicker

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to have a lot of influence (in); to have clout (with); to be influential; to have contacts (in)

1

fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized

1

to sense; to suspect; to get an inkling (of something); to get wind of; to smell (e.g. danger); to become aware of (e.g. a plot)

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lucky; fortunate

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a throw; a fall

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to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate

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to do so; to do thus

3

selection; choice; option

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camouflage; disguise; pretense; feigning; masquerade

5

stage (theatre, theater); scene or setting (e.g. of novel, play, etc.)

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tearful face

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exhilarating; thrilling; intensely pleasurable

1

goodness; excellence; virtue

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to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference

1

small; little; slightly less than; just about; somewhat; somehow

1

sly; cunning; sneaky; crafty; unfair; dishonest

1

bad guy; villain; evildoer; scoundrel

1

through; throughout; in the course of; all over or throughout (e.g. a place)

1

head; lead; vanguard; first

1

to take more time than expected; to take a long time; to be delayed

1

back; backing; going backwards; background; backdrop; backhand; backer

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to see the light; to be awakened to the truth; to have the scales fall from one's eyes

1

it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...

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to sum up; to summarize; to summarise

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rare; seldom

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what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak

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ancestor; forefather; foremother

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turning over; flipping over; reply; response; marks written alongside characters in a classical Chinese text to indicate their ordering when read in Japanese; lapel

1

activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)

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absolutely; positively; decidedly

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to adhere to; to stick to; to keep close to; to go along with; to get involved with; to be thick with

1

to induce (somebody to do something); to tempt; to act toward (somebody in a certain way); to handle (men); to send; to forward to

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the die is cast; there is no going back; point of no return; alea iacta est; alea jacta est

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large-scale play; play with an A-list cast; big act; big charade; theatre with a government licence (Edo period)

1

common front; united front

1

to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell

1

order; system; structure; set-up; organization; organisation

1

mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together; both

2

inconvenient

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between-season wear; spring and autumn clothing; together; condition; situation; -ish

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one mind; wholeheartedness; one's whole heart

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acting; performance

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acting ability; talent as a performer

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