jpdb beta

chrysalis; pupa

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butterfly

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incubation; hatching

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trivial; trifling; slight; insignificant

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I feel that ...; I feel as though ...; I have a feeling that ...; I have the impression that ...; I think that ...

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unexpected; surprising; unanticipated; strange; unforeseen

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sexy

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awareness; realization; noticing

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parents and siblings; one's relatives

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infatuation; adoration; blind love; doting (on a child)

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more than most people; more than other people; compared with other people; more than others

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philosophical view; looking at philosophically; long view; farsighted view

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friendly; openhearted; sociable; amiable; good-humored; good-humoured

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pity; compassion

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such; this sort of; like this

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to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter

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hard to get; hard to come by

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that's the way it is; such is life

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the Sun

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street; road; traffic; coming and going; flow (of water, air, etc.); passage; transmission (of sound)

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to take a step backward; to retreat a step; to back up

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to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly

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perfunctory; apathetic; makeshift; slapdash; routine; usual

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to be irritated; to get annoyed; to lose one's patience

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easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...

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to pay attention; to be watchful

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to read out; to read aloud; to call out; to finish reading; to read through

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humor; humour; joke

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to mix; to combine; to exchange (words, fire, etc.); to cross (e.g. swords); to join together

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small talk; chat; gossip

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to enjoy; to take pleasure in; to have a good time; to look forward to

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

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cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding

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to boil; to seethe

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ignorant of the ways of the world

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good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; (good) idea; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response

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person of doubtful origin; suspicious stranger

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to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant

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casual; doing something without taking it too seriously

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to reach out one's hand; to extend one's arm; to get involved in; to embark on; to start a fight; to get physical with

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isn't it?; let's ...; why don't we ...; how about we ...

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plain; frank; candid; open; direct; straightforward

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one line; (a) single line; boundary; line (between things); forefront; front line

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ceremonious; unduly distant (e.g. towards a friend); overly formal; reserved

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to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively

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equality (esp. of status); equal footing; equal terms

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little by little; bit by bit

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I, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one

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gear; cogwheel; cog (in an organization, company, etc.); cog in the machine

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to go mad; to lose one's mind; to get out of order; to go amiss; to go wrong (of a plan or expectation, etc.); to fall through

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