jpdb beta

to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky

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black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person

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large tree; big tree; huge tree

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ground (color, colour)

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cloth dyed in a dappled pattern; pattern of white spots; dapples; mochi containing red bean paste; (arch.) fawn

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to treat; to handle; to deal with; to arrange; to decorate; to dress

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self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person

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hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking

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cylindrical; tubular

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plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit

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to play hanafuda

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look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting

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coarse; rough

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workmanship; craftsmanship; grades; results; quality (e.g. of a crop); dealings

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to perform some process; to apply some treatment; to revise; to correct

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to finish up; to complete; to finish off; to get through; to polish off

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feel (of a material); texture

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to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)

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to become coarse (e.g. of a texture); to turn rough; to turn gritty; to become sandy

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surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality

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recollection; reminiscence

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wabi-sabi; aesthetic sense in Japanese art centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection

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loveable; very likeable; like very much

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to enjoy (oneself)

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history

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modern style; contemporary style; current fashion; verse form from the Heian and Kamakura periods consisting of 4 lines each divided into two parts of 7 and 5 syllables

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feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely

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persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency

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difficult to ...; hard to ...

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to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan

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to enter; to trespass; to interfere; to meddle; to pry into

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as if; as it were; as though; right then; just then; at that moment

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passing by

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wariness

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taking no notice; ignoring; not even looking at

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special selection; finest pick; top pick

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amorous rumour (rumor); romantic gossip

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no change; no difference; no unusual events; no accidents; no incidents

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strategy; tactics

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maybe; could be; might

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roundabout (e.g. expression); indirect (reference, criticism, etc.); oblique

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class; heading; group; category

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to speak ill of; to disparage

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distrust; unjust suspicion

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to cut deep into; to cut one's way into (an enemy position); to rush on; to press someone hard (e.g. with questions); to get to the heart of (a matter)

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to show contempt for; to look down upon; to have a low opinion of; to cause to fall; to make decline

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compared with

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to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking

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sociable

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to harm; to cause harm to

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