jpdb beta

phantom; vision; something fleeting; short-lived dream; fabled item; mythical thing

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school

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near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon

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mountain; hill; mine; (mountain) forest; heap; pile; protruding or high part of an object

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eyewitness report; eyewitness information

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to catch; to capture; to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street)

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prize money; monetary award; reward

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chance; opportunity

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stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others; solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory)

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sly; cunning; sneaky; crafty; unfair; dishonest

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to return; to come home; to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.); to get home; to get to home plate

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surely; certainly; without doubt

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in high spirits; excited; energetic

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although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish

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reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason

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yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr

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to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)

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part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty

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tool; implement; means; furniture

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to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even

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to raise; to elevate; to move something (to a higher place); to put onto (e.g. a shelf); to increase (price, quality, status, etc.); to raise (a wage); to show someone (into a room)

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-ness; indicates assertion; come (on); come now; er; um; indicates scrutiny, critique or mistrust

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when; at what point

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intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation

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that's the way it is; yes; is that so?; is it?

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um; er; nuh-uh; no; oof

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lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision

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to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)

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if; in case; supposing; worst (case); unexpected (occurence); unforeseen

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to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)

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anyway; anyhow; setting aside ...; regardless of ...; really; truly

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to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed

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it cannot be that ...; it is highly unlikely that ...; it is impossible that ...

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futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness

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how many people; a number of people

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to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or someone else

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beginning; outset; first; onset

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to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore someone's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task

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to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in

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to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case

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to grow wild; to run to waste; to become rough (of art, craft, etc.); to lose refinement; to intensify (of wind, rain, etc.); to become more severe

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in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward

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nothing but; except; no more than

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to make an appearance; to show up

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then; well; so; well then

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alone; by oneself; on one's own

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I'm off (and will be back later); see you later; to go (and then come back)

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how; in what way; how about

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then; and (then); in that case; if so

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to dance (orig. a hopping dance); to be manipulated; to dance to someone's tune

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