jpdb beta

to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune

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soft voice

1

settlement; solution; resolution

2

cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky

2

selfish; self-centred; egotistical

1

victim; injured party; sufferer

4

stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs

1

manly; sportsmanlike; pure (heart, actions, etc.); upright; (arch.) unsullied (e.g. scenery or object); (arch.) pure

1

joint ownership; co-ownership; sharing (e.g. a viewpoint); sharing (files, devices on a network, posts on social media, etc.)

1

corners of the mouth

1

to become coarse (e.g. of a texture); to turn rough; to turn gritty; to become sandy

1

precipitous; rugged; inaccessible; grim; severe; stern

2

to speak sharply (e.g. during a heated discussion or argument)

1

meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview

1

easily; readily; quickly; lightly (seasoned food, applied make-up, etc.); plainly; simply

1

to turn over; to turn around; to change (one's mind); to reverse (one's decision); to fly (flag, etc.); to wave (skirt, cape, etc.)

1

to cling to; to hold on to; to grapple; to set about doing; to begin; to take hold of

2

Russia and Japan; Russian-Japanese

1

negative; contradictory

1

to lose one's temper; to lose patience; to have enough; to be exasperated; to become irritated; to get fed up

1

every year; yearly; annually

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very likely; very probable

1

inconvenient

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to behave; to conduct oneself; to entertain; to treat someone (to a drink); to make tea for someone (tea ceremony)

3

it is no exaggeration to say; it is not too much to say

1

hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker

1

mincing; chopping finely; short and repeated (movements) (e.g. trembling, stepping quickly); gradual; bit by bit

1

demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire

1

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

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to shout; to cry; to scream; to clamor (for or against); to clamour (for or against)

4

some; any; in any way; of some kind; of some sort

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disadvantage; handicap; drawback; inadvisability; inexpediency; loss

2

to run off (fluid); to run down; to flow down

1

unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful

1

to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall

2

what is it (that); the meaning of something; what something is about

1

disappointment; despair

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unreliable; undependable; helpless; forlorn; worried; uneasy

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expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture

2

to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice); to trail off; to die away; to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.); to feel faint; to feel numb

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originator; ringleader; perpetrator; main culprit; person responsible

1

barking up the wrong tree; calling at the wrong house

1

to laugh scornfully

2

reluctant; unwilling; involuntary; unintentional; unintended; unlooked-for

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to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)

2

but; however; provided that

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mother-in-law; foster mother; step mother

3

to be

2

to jar; to creak; to grate

1

pitiful; heartbreaking; heartrending; touching; tragic; sad

1