jpdb beta

depression; melancholy; dejection; gloom; despondency

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hah (derisively); pooh; pfft (of something disappearing); poof; huff; puff

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changing schools

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reverie; meditation; anxiety; thought; pensiveness

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lately; recently; nowadays

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to get strong; to gain strength

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apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize

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windy; windswept; receive harsh treatment

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to desire; to wish for; to expect; to see; to command (a view of)

3

to keep away; to keep at a distance

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joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem

2

communication

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engineer; technician

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to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander

2

stand-offish; distant; not frank; watery (alcohol, coffee, etc.)

2

to feel down; to feel sad; to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.); to be in an unfavourable condition; to fall into (e.g. a hole)

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close friend; bosom friend; buddy; crony; chum

2

to place persons opposite; to come face to face with; to compare (with); to check (against); to match

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many times

2

to risk one's life (to do); to put one's life on the line; to step forward (to do); to give one's all

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to be helpful; to be dependable; to stand by (someone)

2

whether or not (in phrases like "I don't know whether or not I can come")

2

first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole

4

to explain; to dispel doubts

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mechanical

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ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound

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button (clothing); push-button

3

click

2

using as an intermediary; through

3

to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else

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(coming to a) mutual understanding; understanding each other

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smooth; undisturbed; uninterrupted; harmonious

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mental; spiritual; emotional

2

dissatisfaction; discontent; displeasure; complaint; unhappiness

2

to supplement; to make up for; to compensate for; to cover (a shortage, loss, etc.); to fill (e.g. a vacancy)

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pseudo; quasi; false; suspected (case, e.g. of disease)

3

comparison and contrast

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education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education

2

to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that

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existence; being; survival; to exist; to live; to survive

1

to fit; to suit

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impossible; incapable (of doing); incompetence; inability; impotence; having no solution (of an equation)

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physical phenomenon

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influence; clout; leverage

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careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent

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increase; multiplication; propagation; proliferation

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fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth

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dull; uninteresting; boring; drab

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scroll

2

appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.; literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning; face (of a printing type)

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