jpdb beta

mikoshi; portable Shinto shrine carried through the streets during festivals; palanquin; litter; lower back; waist

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to keep company; to look after; to entertain; to play (a game) with

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guiltless; innocent

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genre picture; painting depicting customs

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persons or animals added to a picture; incidental details of a picture

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-like

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antiquity; ancient times; bygone days; former times

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(physical) appearance (of a person); one's face and figure

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prediction; prophecy; prognostication; (religious) prophecy

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unfit; unsuitable; unmarketable

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contrary to one's expectations

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entrance; front door

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slightly early; just before

1

arriving first; first to arrive; moving first

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(frustratingly) slow; tedious; sluggish; roundabout (e.g. explanation); exasperating; irritating

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restless; fidgety; in a hurry

1

giving up on winning a hand and discarding only safe tiles

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to get tired of waiting

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attack; offence; top (dominant partner of a homosexual relationship); barrage (of); flood (of)

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reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight

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pressure; pressure (e.g. political); arm-twisting

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(opening a door) with a clatter; noisily; (falling) with a clatter; with a crash; (changing) completely; totally

4

Euston railway station

3

suspicious phone call

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young turtle (tortoise); turtle (tortoise) shell

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to dent; to indent; to depress; to humiliate

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totteringly; with tottering steps; toddling

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the whole town; all over the town; throughout the town

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to resound; to echo; to reverberate

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corpulence; fatness; obesity

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plump; with a thud; heavily

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to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to throw (at); to fling (at); to vent (e.g. one's anger); to express (one's feelings)

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to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

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middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

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to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself (as); to change (into); to transform; to change radically (for the better)

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fearfully; nervously; timidly; gingerly

2

state ceremony; laborious; troublesome; irksome

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polish; burnishing; improvement; becoming more skilled

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to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up

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to get tired; to become exhausted; to become worn out; to become battered (from long use); to get tired of (doing); to get fed up with

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golf course; golf links

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obstacle; hurdle

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methodical; precise; meticulous; wooden post that has been carved to have a rounded corner with grooves running along either side of it

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to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)

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beam running between columns in traditional Japanese architecture, esp. within Japanese-style rooms

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cloth-covered

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winding; meandering; wriggling; wiggling; waving; swaying

1

mood; atmosphere; mood

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knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes

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(much) more than others; exceedingly; extremely; unusually

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