jpdb beta

bedside

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sick person; patient; invalid

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foreigner; stranger; gentile; goy

1

hailing distance

1

hard fighting; hard struggle; fighting against heavy odds

1

to stick it out (until the end)

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hospital; clinic; doctor's office; doctor's surgery; infirmary

1

prison

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disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful

3

drift (of snow, leaves, etc.); hangout for social dropouts

1

in name only; titular; nominal

1

authority; power; influence

1

to wear the mantle of (borrowed) authority and misuse it

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smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)

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to shut; to close; to block (a street, entrance, etc.); to shut in (with snow, ice, etc.); to shut off; to consume (with negative feelings)

1

to shut out; to bar; to lock out; to exclude

1

distant future; inevitable future; places one goes to

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to lecture; to give a lesson

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one night; one evening; all night; overnight

2

to travel about

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space-time

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agglomeration; clumping together; cohesion (of ions, etc.); flocculation (of colloidal particles); agglutination

1

outward appearance

1

to grow old; to weaken with age; to become senile

1

for a long time; since long ago; from childhood; bright and early; early in the morning

1

to meet; to assemble; to congregate

1

grey; gray; ashen

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opportunity; chance; folding; fold; small food box (wooden or cardboard); folding in ... (two, three, etc.); counter for folded items

2

lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end

2

to apologize; to apologise

1

strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness

1

to project; to stick out; to stand out

1

claw; talon

2

lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate

3

to push someone (towards); to encourage someone

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to get slightly dirty (all over)

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to get too skinny

1

ugly; unattractive; unsightly; unseemly

1

to turn (one's face) away; to avert (one's eyes)

2

bare earth; ground

1

to turn yellow; to become tinged with yellow; to yellow (with age)

1

dirt; filth; grime

1

skin and bones

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rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby

2

to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around

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to grow timid; to cower; to become perverse; to become contrary; to be cramped; to be constrained

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denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like

2

menial; meanness; servility; abject

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to degenerate; to lapse into

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modest; humble

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