jpdb beta

character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")

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(understanding or appreciation of) culture; (one's) education; cultivation; sophistication; refinement

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there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)

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pity; compassion

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cultivating new land; clearing; reclamation

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pasturage; grazing

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settler; colonist; immigrant

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experimental

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quantitative; concerning the quantity

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royal family

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great joy; delight; jubilation

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inquiry; query; enquiry

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rush; flood; deluge

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to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate

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neck; bottleneck; obstruction; neckline

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hill; knoll

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natural growth; wild growth

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one-way (trip); one-way ticket

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felling timber; cutting down trees; logging; lumbering

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year after next

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to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess

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to pester someone (e.g. to buy something)

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thoughtless; reckless; rash; excessive; unreasonable; immoderate

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nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)

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collecting; assembling

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halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked

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without; but if; otherwise; or else

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raw silk thread

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ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pitch (e.g. in baseball); pile (of noodles, etc.)

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what; how; what (a) ...!; how ...!; surprisingly; to my amazement

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at first; in the beginning; originally

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hemp cloth; linen

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heh heh heh; tee-hee; giggle

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cold sweat

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high price

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within the country; inside the county; domestic; home; internal

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each place; every place; various places; all parts (of the country, world, etc.)

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early on; earlier on; from early

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arranged; taken care of; settled; completed; finished

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church; chapel; synagogue; tabernacle

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to stand (something) up; to put upright; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to let out; to raise (a cloud of dust, smoke, etc.)

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one's post; place of work; workplace

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study tour

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hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little

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(giving) birth; childbirth; delivery

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to hold (a ceremony); to perform

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just a handful; only a small number (of)

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way; style; ceremony; rite; wedding (ceremony); equation

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near oneself; close to one; familiar

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to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)

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