jpdb beta

investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning; pressing; catching up; overtaking

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free person; free spirit

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sense of responsibility

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to mow down; to cut down; to knock down; to defeat; to beat

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script; screenplay; scenario

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full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself

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ego; egoism; egoist

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prudence; judgement; sense; discipline; care; control

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lesson; discipline; example (e.g. set a bad example); revelation

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sounds

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to leave open

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sermon; preaching; remonstration; scolding; lecturing

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balcony; Spanish bar; Spanish-style restaurant with a counter, serving food, alcoholic drinks, and coffee

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some days; several days

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holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)

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taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away

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to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy

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to bring (someone) back home; to take (someone) back home

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distant look; faraway look

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to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)

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personal expenses; pocket money; spending money; incidental expenses; allowance

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pocket money; spending money; pin money; allowance

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monthly tuition fee

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period of youth; while young

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something; nothing (with neg. verb)

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annoying; noisy; strict

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indigestion; dyspepsia; incomprehensibility; inability to understand

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eternal; everlasting; unchangeable; invariant

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dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip; going the long way round; making a detour

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local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift

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to get one's head around; to think about

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one round; one circuit; one revolution; one lap; one turn

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home; family; household

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miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic

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tough; stubborn; determined; severely; heavily; hard

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seat at a table; place at a table

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to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring

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hat; cap

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to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)

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to wear glasses; to put on glasses

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meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting

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order (for an item); request; demand; condition

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small talk; chat; gossip

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to amuse oneself; to make merry

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baby; infant

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married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)

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alternately; by turns

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mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short

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promotion; raising of status

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many; varied; all sorts; crowded; large (e.g. helping)

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