jpdb beta

good-looking man; fine figure of a man

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compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement

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predecessor; pioneer; ancestor

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ready wit; quick wits; resourcefulness; raising (money)

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fruit of one's labor; result of one's efforts

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new rice; first rice crop of the year; novice; beginner; newcomer

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to pass; to pass on; to give (something) a miss; to cut it out; to knock off (for the day); to let the matter drop

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smelling burnt; smelling scorched; smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if armed conflict is about to break out); tense; suspicious; dubious

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unexpectedly; surprisingly

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person concerned; interested party; related party

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to call a person's attention (to)

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to drift (to); to be washed ashore

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coward; namby-pamby; wimp; weak-kneed person; spineless person

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to lend (e.g. money)

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to pity; to feel sympathy for; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to commiserate with; to have mercy on

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idea; notion; sense (e.g. of duty); resignation (to one's fate); acceptance; observation and contemplation

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early evening (usu. from 3pm to 6pm); dusk

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to be worth it; to pay; to be profitable

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to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble

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pretending not to know; pretending not to recognize someone (recognise); feigning ignorance; playing innocent

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to feel guilty; to suffer from a guilty conscience; to feel uneasy; to have qualms about; to have scruples about; to feel regret

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to show one's true colors (colours); to expose one's faults; to give oneself away

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to lure out; to entice out

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other people's affairs; someone else's problem

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broke; skint

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we; us; I; me

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luckily; happily

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grade; class; degree; magnitude

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practice; putting into practice; implementation; praxis

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to be outdone (by); to be in inferior (to); to compare unfavorably (with); to be behind

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removal; getting rid of

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to come apart; to unravel; to come loose; to become disarrayed (e.g. of hair)

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to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.); to cull; to run on a curtailed schedule; to cut down; to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)

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fake; sham; counterfeit; impostor; cheat; hypocrite

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declaration; indication; representation; manifestation; demonstration; expression

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reasoning; logic; persuasion

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competent; suitable; qualified

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just like that; quite so; I agree; that street

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preparing to flee

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leaving (it) to others

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beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially

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small number of people

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means; method

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to be possible to occur

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(feeling of) indebtedness; feeling obliged

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one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission

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in a lively way; vividly; freshly; animatedly; actively; energetically

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big-shot; influential person; happy face; smiling face; sympathetic attitude; getting along with

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to be in one's debt

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financial circumstances; financial situation; circulation of money

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