jpdb beta

ages; long time; decade; ten years (ago)

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tenth day of the month; ten days

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great antiquity; old-fashioned; long ago

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to be stumped; to be at a loss; to be at one's wits' end; to be fed up; to be tired (of); to be unable to bear

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to make narrower; to shut (an umbrella); to shrug (one's shoulders); to purse (one's lips)

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half-cooked; vague; halfhearted; indecisive

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(a) look; gaze

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viewing optimistically; thinking optimistically; taking an optimistic view; looking on the bright side

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to ask a big favour; to ask unreasonable things; to be unreasonable

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first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface

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strategy; stratagem; trick; scheme; plot

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seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand

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now; nowadays

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error; mistake; slip; bug

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to be too late (to be of use)

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soft; software; soft hat; felt hat; soft serve ice cream; softball

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scheme; tactic; stratagem; trick

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to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.); to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, etc.); to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging, etc.)

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tenacious; tough; enduring; dogged; headstrong; stubborn

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to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage

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being in love with each other

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impossible; unlikely; improbable

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to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective

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silly person; dumb-bunny; dope

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domino toppling

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tile

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domino (game); dominoes; domino effect

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to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die

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frankness; impulsiveness

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model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.); type; style; mold (mould); template; kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)

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to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to

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how long; how much; to what extent

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wooden doll; blockhead; good-for-nothing

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entry in family register

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special; auspicious; happy; naive; innocent; good-natured

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to crush (with the weight of misfortune)

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to moan; to groan

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the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation

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younger brother

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17; seventeen

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cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae

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to grieve and moan

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almost not able (to do something)

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it is no use crying over spilt milk

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miserable; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; downhearted; dreary

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to step forward; to take a step forward; to start on a project, etc.; to take the first step with

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devoted; self-sacrificing

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thoughtless; inconsiderate; tasteless; cruel

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wonderful; astounding; marvellous

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one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)

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