jpdb beta

photo studio; photographer; camera shop; photography supplies shop; photo processing shop; photo finishing shop

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How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

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other party; other side; ahead; in front; destination

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diligent; industrious

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honest; steady

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fishing net

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to go through; to pass through; to get through; to cut across

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by choice; of one's own free will; on one's own initiative; off one's own bat

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(small crunchy) dried sardines

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to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)

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appetite (for food)

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dish of rice and miso soup or dried bonito flakes; (lit.) cat food

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to bolt down (food); to gulp down; to shovel (into one's mouth)

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to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)

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candy

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to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up

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privilege; special right

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unreliable; undependable; untrustworthy; not to be counted on

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reddish brown

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looking or acting as if one owned the place

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entering a room; studying under a Buddhist teacher

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whirlpool; swirl; eddy; vortex; maelstrom

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to gather together

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to be able to eat; to be able to swallow

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unidentifiable; unidentified

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adviser; someone to consult with; someone to turn to about one's concerns; confidant

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to reason; to sum up; to conclude

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melodrama; soap opera

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one knee

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shrill; piercing (scream, etc.)

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the coming days

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stepmother

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to hate; to detest

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newspaper stand; newspaper seller; paper carrier; newspaper reporter

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muzzling (a person); preventing (a person) from revealing something; silencing (a person); murdering (a person) to prevent them from revealing something

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poisoning; kill by poison

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danger to oneself; (fear of) one's physical safety

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day after tomorrow; wrong (e.g. direction)

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hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing

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to leave (something) undone; to neglect (a duty, task, etc.); to break (a promise, appointment, etc.); to stand (someone) up

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not necessarily so; is not always true

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to cackle

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to admonish; to persuade; to warn; to remonstrate

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sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness

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dial-style (e.g. of phones)

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children's song; nursery rhyme

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to refer to; to use as reference

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to think (something) is improper; to question; to have a problem with

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(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it

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here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now

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