jpdb beta

hard to please; moody; crusty; fastidious

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human nature; human heart; public feeling; people's sentiments; consciousness; awareness

1

grasping; seizing; holding; commanding; having control over

1

lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend

1

some; small amount of

1

kind offices; services; through the good offices of; intercession; mediation

1

to contract; to undertake; to take over; to take responsibility for

1

to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry

1

to poke fun at; to make fun of; to send up

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main question; real issue at hand

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to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

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to accompany; to follow; to keep up with

2

interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt

2

cotton print; calico

1

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

1

regrettable; disappointing; precious; dear; too good for; deserving better

1

objective; aim; mark

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hesitation; indecision

1

confidential matters

1

to fail to hear something; to miss; to act as if one didn't hear something; to let a remark slide

1

to strain (one's ears, eyes); to prick up (one's ears)

1

to take refuge in; to succeed in running away

1

he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing

1

to look away (from); to avert one's gaze; to disregard; to ignore; to escape (from); to turn away (from)

2

devoting oneself to; concentrating on; being an ardent admirer of; (arch.) tipping over and collapsing

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divine love; agape

2

to refuse; to reject; to decline; to prevent (from doing); to deny (e.g. access); to block

3

foolish undertaking

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imprudence; quick temper

5

resentment; indignation; anger

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to go by; to go past; to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to go indoors; to go into a room; to penetrate

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expulsion; ousting; ejection; dismissal; banishment

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by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being

6

olden days; former

2

suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy

1

valuable; worthwhile; worthy; worth doing

1

assassination

2

assassin

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both; (not) either

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one grade; first-class; primary

1

person with a bounty on their head

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to compete with; to argue with; to quarrel

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skill; dexterity; master hand

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to open one's eyes wide

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magic; sorcery; incantation

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edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)

2

(suffering) damage; injury; harm

5

to fall onto; to happen; to befall

3

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

5

to make trouble; to rock the boat; to make waves; to aggravate a situation

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