jpdb beta

to pick a fight

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balance of power (in a relationship); power dynamic

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reversal (of a situation); turnaround; turnabout; reversal (of direction of rotation)

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to pass (a car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to outdistance

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tolerant; big; flexible; big-hearted; accepting; open-minded

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to put to use; to make good use of; to exploit

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gratitude; thanks; apology

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to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand

2

way of using (something); way to use; how to use; way of handling (employees, subordinates, etc.); way of treating; treatment

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favorite; favourite; pet (e.g. teacher's pet); bookmark (in a web browser)

2

pipsqueak; little runt; midget; dwarf

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pretending to know

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to chide; to rebuke; to reprove

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foolish; idiotic; stupid; ridiculous; absurd

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huh?; what's up?

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trial and error

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overestimation; overrating; overvaluing

1

combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting

3

training; drill; practice; discipline

8

impregnable

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underestimation; undervaluation

1

curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange

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to be surprised; to be bewildered; to be confused; to be flustered; to roll one's eyes up and down

2

to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain

3

nice to meet you; I'm glad to make your acquaintance; how do you do?

2

person in charge (including a supervisory role for other staff); person responsible for ...; responsible party; supervisor; manager

1

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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meek; quiet; docile; mysterious; marvelous; marvellous

1

to tell a lie; to fib

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thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; gibe

2

spy; spying

1

innocence; guiltlessness; purity; uprightness; integrity

1

cloudiness; cloudy weather; fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); gloom; dejection

1

well-informed person; walking dictionary; extensive knowledge

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admiration; being impressed; admirable; praiseworthy; astonishment; being appalled

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genuineness or spuriousness; authenticity; the genuine and the spurious

3

frankly speaking

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integrity; consistency; conformity; compliance

1

espionage

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compensation; reparation; price (of achieving a goal); cost; paying compensation on someone's behalf; compensation

2

to be worth it; to pay; to be profitable

1

(surprise) attack; assault; raid; charge

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fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy

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(complete) destruction; annihilation; devastation

2

piling up high (food in a bowl); filling (a bowl); heaped bowl

1

close investigation; careful examination; scrutiny

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advantage; benefit; merit; good point; plus

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dissenting opinion; opposite viewpoint; contraview

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looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); search (e.g. on the Internet); retrieval (of information); reference

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sauce; Worcestershire sauce

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