jpdb beta

spot; point; place; position

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to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to be compensated; to make up for one's losses

4

one grade; first-class; primary

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ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity

1

to be able to manage somehow or other

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to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)

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contradiction; inconsistency

1

to kill; to choke the life out of

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to flush out (a hare, fox, etc.); to drive out; to drive (cattle, sheep, etc.); to urge on; to drive (to do); to urge

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

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oh!; ah!; oh dear!; good grief!; dear me!; thank God!

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to bite (at); to snap at; to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat

2

that is not supposed to ...; that ought not to ...; that should never ...; that cannot possibly ...

1

poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty

1

dirty-looking; filthy; disgusting; squalid

1

ambush; lying in wait for an ambush

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to go ahead; to pull ahead

1

wasteland; wilderness; abandoned land; devastated land

1

terrain; geographical features; topography

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just right; ideal; perfectly suitable; fetch!; bring me ...

1

defile; narrow path; bottleneck; impasse

4

both sides

1

to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply

1

precipice; cliff; bluff

1

cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation

5

infantry; infantryman; foot soldier

1

to push and push; to keep pushing to the end

1

both; (not) either

1

advance guard; vanguard; athlete who competes in the first match of a team competition (kendo, judo, etc.)

1

smelling burnt; smelling scorched; smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if armed conflict is about to break out); tense; suspicious; dubious

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to quicken one's pace (steps)

1

reduction by half; halving

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end (e.g. of a line); tail end; rear; backmost part

3

to kill an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits; to kill viciously; to victimize; to torment

1

to cross; to go across; to go through; to cut across

1

ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf

5

to dig; to excavate; to delve into; to dig up (vegetables, treasure, etc.); to mine (coal, ore, etc.); to top

1

moat; fosse; canal; ditch

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to be too short

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indescribable; having no way to express

1

bottom; sole; depths (e.g. of despair, the sea); bottom (of one's heart); limit; end

2

to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become indistinct; to become impure (of one's heart, a society, etc.); to be corrupted

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liquid

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to give off a bad smell; to give off a stench

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to jump over; to leap over; to fly over; to fly across; to jump ahead (of someone); to skip over

1

imposing stance; daunting pose

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grinning; smirking

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quickly, in a bouncing way (e.g. for a bow)

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to (enter and) sit down; to plop oneself down; to plant oneself down; to sit down (and refuse to move); to sit in (in protest)

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substitution; replacement; shifting; change

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