jpdb beta

cross-national

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space race

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industrial spy; industrial espionage

2

colony

1

leader; reader; reading book; reader (i.e. someone who reads); microreader; dotted line (in printing)

1

citizen; resident; person; user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere)

1

government service; the bureaucracy

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to leave behind

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to build up one's strength; to get stronger; to give (someone) strength; to cheer (someone) up; to encourage (someone)

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to the last; persistency; thoroughness

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intention; idea; inclination; wish

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to cut into (a conversation); to interject

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one's future; one's fate; one's way; one's path

1

line

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to get a late start

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wild; violent; rough-mannered; rough (e.g. work); crude; coarse

1

personal history; career

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vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry

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brilliant; splendid; glorious; magnificent; spectacular

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to make clear; to clarify; to disclose; to make public

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novice; beginner; starting to run; running off; running away

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studying under; looking up to; apprenticing oneself to

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the other world; the next world; the world beyond; world after death

1

ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious

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with a feeling of relief; with a sigh of relief; deeply (sigh)

1

... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...

1

soundproofing

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nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty

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to run around

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futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

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soundly (sleeping); fast (asleep)

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to come true (of a wish, prayer, etc.); to be realized; to suit (e.g. a purpose); to meet (wishes, ideals, etc.); to match (implies competition); to rival

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bathroom

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bedroom

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composition; construction; formation; makeup; structure; organization

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king-size

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mattress; mattress pad (under a futon)

1

sheet; bed sheet

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to dig your own grave; to bring calamity upon oneself; to put your foot in it

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way of speaking; intimation

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pulpy; soppy; sloppy; untidy; in a disarray

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to look away; to avert one's eyes

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peephole; spyhole; inspection hole; observation window

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to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough

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central corridor; middle corridor

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to sit down (and refuse to move); to sit-in (in protest)

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tie; necktie

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unmatched (unparalleled) accuracy

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breathing of a sleeping person

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coming home from school

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