jpdb beta

spoon; spoon lure

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repeatedly opening and closing (one's mouth); gasping; flapping (e.g. shoe sole); gaping open and shut; heartily (eating); devouring

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arbitrarily; of its own accord; without asking; voluntarily; willfully; as one pleases

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to start eating

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conservative without party affiliation

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very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point

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exquisite flavor (flavour); delectable flavor; delicious flavor; delicacy; delectable dish

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to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of

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to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)

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cover; lid; cap

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licking

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innocent; naive; artless; unaffected; genuine; childlike

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smiling face; smile

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first meeting; first interview with

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close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related

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to sigh; to breathe a sigh

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to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

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barefoot; superior to (e.g. a professional); outdoing; outshining

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trot; half run; jog; girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family

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hmm; I see; hrm

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charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of

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Nasuno

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exactly alike (in appearance); like two peas in a pod; (practically) identical; spitting image (of); carbon copy (of)

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first meeting; first contest between

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dunce; blockhead; inattentive person; (lit.) (a) lantern at noon

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dark-natured; gloomy; dour; moody; insular; glum

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relative; relation

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acquaintance

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foe; enemy; resentment; enmity; harm; injury

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to see through; to see into (someone's heart, mind, etc.); to perceive; to find out; to detect

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to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt

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to turn one's back on; to be uninterested in

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to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate

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cash offering made on the occasion of one's visit to a shrine; money offering dedicated to the Shinto gods; fees for offering a branch of the sacred tree to the gods

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to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include

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occasion; time; circumstances; (in) case (of); when

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coin; token; slug

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offertory box

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to walk

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branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering); sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)

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early; right away; at once; early time; early stage (in one's life, etc.)

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to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort

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tail (of an animal); tail end; tip

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to feel nervous; to feel afraid; to be startled; to be surprised; (arch.) to be shy; (arch.) to be bashful

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to retreat; to back off; to draw back; to step back; to shrink away

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to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)

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inseam; inside leg

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shear (wind, fluids); chicken gizzard

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to drain; to flow (unobstructed); to sell well; to be in good demand; to exit the stage; to remove (a prop) from the stage

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underpants; pants; briefs; trousers (esp. women's); jodhpurs; breeches

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