jpdb beta

to help; to assist; to aid; to contribute to; to be a factor in

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timid; weak-kneed; fainthearted; bearish (e.g. market)

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to shake one's head

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to shake off

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drawing room; parlour; parlor; reception office

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brow; glabella; middle forehead; area between the eyebrows

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to wrinkle up (one's eyebrows, one's nose); to furrow; to crimple

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hard to please; moody; crusty; fastidious

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to pull oneself together; to focus one's mind; to brace oneself; to gird up one's loins

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street clothes

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affectation; showiness; pretence

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to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around

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straight to the point; point-blank; frank; direct

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to overdo; to go too far; to go to excess

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to let go by; to let pass; to overlook; to miss

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to impress; to move one's heart; to touch (a person's heart)

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awareness; realization

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wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes

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cooperation; collaboration

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leaving as is; leaving alone; leaving to chance; neglecting; abandoning

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scandal

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favorable; favourable

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inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)

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mother

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hesitation; indecision

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presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch

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several months

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the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life

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favor; favour; affection

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to come to light

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exile; banishment; eviction; elimination (e.g. of poverty); removal

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to become; to amount to

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contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import

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dumbfounded; in mute amazement

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father

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to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside

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warm heart; kindliness

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(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style

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interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)

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to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)

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final; eventual; ultimate

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aphrodisiac; love potion; philter

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to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

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somehow; for some reason; without knowing why

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when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

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severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)

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to train; to discipline; to teach manners

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everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly

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to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)

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to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)

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