jpdb beta

people

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incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person

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management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome

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shallow; superficial; thoughtless; short-sighted; foolish; silly

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slow; sluggish; dull; lax; sloppy; lenient

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to provide; to furnish; to equip; to install

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to sit at a desk (to study); to set to work on revision, homework, etc.

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glass bottle; glass jar; phial; vial

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feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)

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botanical; vegetable; vegetal; vegetative

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parchment

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to fish; to look for; to search for; to go on a spree (spending, reading, etc.); to binge

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newspaper

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to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute

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to get accustomed to using

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to run (of liquid); to spread; to blur; to blot; to ooze; to well up (of tears, etc.)

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unshapely; unsightly; clumsy; unpresentable; uncouth; awkward

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(verbal) message; sending word; (arch.) excuse; (arch.) pretext

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to knead; to mix with fingers; to quibble; to argue for argument's sake

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to do (a person) good; to bring profit

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to find it hard to say

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loss and gain; advantage and disadvantage

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well; now; then

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to come to mind; to pop into one's head

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to assign; to set aside

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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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opposite side; opposition

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lower rank

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younger; junior

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to summon; to call (e.g. phone); to convene; to invoke (e.g. subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)

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to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)

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party; banquet; feast

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to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one

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something heard for the first time; hearing something for the first time

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uncle

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arhat

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heir; successor; family estate; family fortune; headship of a family

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one's real father; natural father; biological father

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when it comes to ...; if one were to speak of ...; by ... you mean ...; when you say ... you mean that ...; whenever ...; if it's ... then (without fail)

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to attract interest; to arouse someone's interest

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be; is

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like this; in this way; as you see

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to send in

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special; particular; peculiar; unique

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puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex

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pride; boast

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extreme; radical

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to move (house); to transfer (department); to change the target of interest or concern; to elapse (passage of time); to be permeated by a colour or scent; to be infected

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to open (e.g. path); to clear (the way); to break up (e.g. land)

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with a momentary flash of light

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