jpdb beta

lower grades of primary school (first, second, and sometimes third grades)

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contest; comparison; competition

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far from; anything but; not at all ... but rather ...; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention

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unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful

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tightly clenched fist

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to freeze (to something); to be frozen (to); to freeze hard; to freeze completely

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to spit out; to eject; to dump

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more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once

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(one's) pay; wages

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debt; loan; liabilities; number of games under the .500 mark

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to return (something); to restore; to turn over; to turn upside down; to pay back; to retaliate; to respond (with)

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great; excellent; distinguished; important; awful; terrible

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extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness

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to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of

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shame; embarrassment; disgrace

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honest; frank; candid; honestly; frankly

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to win; to gain victory

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and yet; though; when; in spite of

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to protect (someone); to look after (e.g. an injured leg); to defend; to cover for; to stand up for; to stick up for

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elementary school; primary school; school for children over eight years old in ancient China; traditional Chinese philology

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nth-year student; nth-year pupil

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for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)

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prudent-looking

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mother; wife

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older brother; elder brother; brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship); young man; buddy

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to go out and away; to leave

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aloneness; loneliness; solitude

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echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

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future years; in (one's) later years

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to affect a stylish air; to try to look good; to show off

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confession (to a crime, wrongdoing, etc.); admission; professing one's feelings (to someone one wants to go out with); declaration of love; profession (of faith); confession (of sins)

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truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth

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to treat as a joke; to do jokingly

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making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (of letters)

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to be opposite; to face each other; to confront (an issue); to face

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ten-day period (in a month); ten-year period (in one's age); decade

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different person; another person; someone else; changed man

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leaving school during a term

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shop; store; someone who sells (something) or works as (something); someone with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

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stirring; rousing oneself

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possibility; chance; potential; potentiality; possibility (modal property of a proposition containing no logical contradiction)

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attire; dress; clothes; clothing; costume; garb

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of course; certainly; naturally

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whole; entirety; to begin with; in the first place; ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?")

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even

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look (in someone's eyes); expression (of the eyes); eyes

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to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully

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precocity; early ripening; premature development

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young; innocent; childlike

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mix; mixture; (pre-made) mix; cake mix; mixed; mixed doubles team

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