jpdb beta

town; block; downtown; main street; street; road

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evening sun; setting sun

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red; crimson; scarlet; Red; communist

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background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)

2

standing tall; towering; soaring

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to be burned down

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otherwise; or else; if not

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wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war

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sticking; clinging; with a smack (e.g. sitting down); hard; all over; thickly

1

excessive bleeding; massive bleeding

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resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness

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distinctive; characteristic

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to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or someone else

1

monorail

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elevated (structure); overhead

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signboard; sign; draw; attraction; reputation (of a shop); name

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sign; mark; marker; marker

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letter (of an alphabet); character; writing

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distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion

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to stand still (for a while); to remain in one place; to stand alone (of a building, statue, tree, etc.); to stand quietly; to wander about; to loiter

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evening glow; red sunset; afterglow (of sunset)

1

counter for thin, flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper, plates, coins); counter for portions of gyōza or soba; counter for ranks; counter for wrestlers of a particular rank; counter for fields or rice paddies; counter for palanquin bearers

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to sing; to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem; to express in the form of a poem; to recite (a poem)

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small; fine; detailed; stingy

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grain; bead; drop; counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops

2

to fade (of a colour); to grow dull in color (colour); to lose vividness; to lose freshness; to grow stale

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staying behind; remaining; residual

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thought

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to shed light; to cast light

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bubble; foam; froth; suds; lather; head (on beer)

2

ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pitch (e.g. in baseball); pile (of noodles, etc.)

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to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem

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crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch

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engraving a seal; engraved seal; engraving; inscribing; brand (i.e. a mark of disgrace); stamp

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to insure (something); to come up with a back-up plan; to hedge one's bets; to play it safe

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(unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario); (lit.) 10000 to 1; (if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that

1

to train; to teach; to acquire (information); to learn; to stock; to stock up on

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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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not necessarily so; is not always true; there is no guarantee that ...; there is no telling

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the latter; the second; successor; descendant

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to throb (with pain); to ache; to smart; to rankle; to gall; to rile

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to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)

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prompt; immediate; in real time

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to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)

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to swim; to struggle through (a crowd); to make one's way through the world; to get along (in life); to totter; to lose one's balance

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innocent; childlike; guileless; free of malice; thoughtless; simple-minded

4

at any rate; in any event; either way; anyway

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to bring (someone) back home; to take (someone) back home

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to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely

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faltering; hesitation

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