jpdb beta

popular person; favorite; favourite

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to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)

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to go too far; to go past; to go to extremes; to overdo it

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ordinary person; run-of-the-mill people; John Doe; Jane Doe

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immature; childish

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impatient; tantalized; tantalised; irritated; chagrined; chagrinned

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in turns; in series; in number order; by rotation

3

device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement

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wild flowers

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toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything

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hasty; impatient; restless; rash

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downstream; lower reaches of a river; lower classes

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each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn

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pure; innocent; naive; unspoilt; pure-hearted; ingenuous

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to breathe (heavily); to pant; to gasp; to live

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facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

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playground

2

family quarrel; quarrel between parent and child

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to lay bare; to expose; to reveal

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missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown

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left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable

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to sprain; to twist; to dampen (enthusiasm); to discourage; to dishearten

1

to raise; to lift; to hang up; to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)

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both parties; both sides

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seriously; in earnest; for real; all out; really; with a will

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answer; solution

2

to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)

2

biological parent; real parent

3

bum; good-for-nothing; ne'er-do-well

1

to be hurtful; to resonate emotionally (with one)

1

to remove; to deinstall; to take away; to set apart

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three times; thrice; third (musical interval)

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to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away

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coastline; shoreline; coastal railway

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emotional; sentimental

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action; operation; effect; function

1

objective

1

to shake; to waver; to tremble

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boarding (a train, bus, etc.); getting into (e.g. a taxi)

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puncture; flat tyre (tire); blowout; bursting; overflowing; being jammed (e.g. phone lines)

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to look down on; to treat with contempt; to treat disparagingly; to sneer at

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to grant (request, wish); to answer (prayer); to fulfill (conditions); to meet (requirements)

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to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter

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shape up!; act properly!

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to be stubborn; to be obstinate; to be perverse; to not give in

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diet; losing weight by any method (e.g. exercise)

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out of control; out of hand; unmanageable; nothing one can do

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opening and shutting

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at; in; on

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fish simmered with soy sauce (and sugar)

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