jpdb beta

seventeen; 17

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February and August (months when business is generally at its slowest)

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law; act; method; mood; dharma; law

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violation; offense; offence; breach; transgression; infringement

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leak of official secrets; leaking of confidential information

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crime; sin; penalty; sentence; fault; responsibility

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with a click; with a snap; ornamental clip (hair, obi, etc.)

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to fold (clothes, umbrella); to close (a shop, business); to vacate

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group (usu. of people)

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support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy

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false charge

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to put clothes on (someone); to dress; to cover; to coat; to pin (e.g. a crime on someone); to lay (blame)

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with a thump; (hanging) straight down

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to praise extravagantly; to lionize; to lionise; to make much of

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to be able to do; to be capable of doing

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powerlessness; helplessness; incompetence; ineffectiveness

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I, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one

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trial; judgement; judgment

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to accuse someone; to charge someone

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penalty; sentence; punishment

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law; legislation; act

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criminal insurrection

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ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot)

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instigating murder; incitement to murder

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(crime of) murder

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application (of a rule, law, method, etc.)

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death penalty; capital punishment

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or; either ... or ...

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indefinite; unlimited; life imprisonment

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penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labor (hard labour)

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word; vocabulary

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bow-wow; woof; wah-wah; bawling; clamouring; clamoring

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taking leave (of a visited place); leaving; going home; leaving one's employment; quitting one's job; being dismissed

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seeing (someone) off; send-off; deferment; postponement; letting a pitch go by; wait-and-see attitude

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to imitate; to follow; to copy; to emulate

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the most; the best; the greatest; supreme; unrivalled; unsurpassed

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to hang one's head; to look down; to cast one's eyes downward

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to leave behind

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loss; forfeit

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to lose heart; to lose motivation

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sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg)

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to collapse (of a building, dream, plan, etc.); to be destroyed; to fall through; to be completely defeated (in battle); to be wiped out; to be routed

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to move along; to go alongside; to walk along; to follow; to run down (one's cheek, leg, etc.); to trickle down

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epilogue

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frosted glass

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forehead; brow

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to cure; to heal

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why?; what for?; how?; by what means?

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scheming; planning; maneuvering; manoeuvring; plotting

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timid; fainthearted

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