jpdb beta

mediation; agency; agent; mediator; middleman; go-between

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cross-cultural; comparative culture

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division; section; classification; sorting; division

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grant; allowance; endowment; bestowal; assignment; conferment

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Western Europe; the West; the Occident; Europe

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telling (on someone); tattling; snitching

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Pieter Brueghel

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gallows

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to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known

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traditional; customary; conventional

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icon; simple ink drawing (of a buddha, mandala, etc.)

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to take down in notes (meeting minutes, etc.); to apply (concepts, ideas, etc. to specific processes or methods); to drop into something (e.g. a bag); to entice; to lure

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waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

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frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair

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to run away (e.g. from work); to escape; to skip (school); to end a round with less than 20 points

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(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game

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to liken to; to compare to; to pattern after; to model after; to imitate

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softening; softening (of attitude); mollification; weakening (of the market); blanching (of vegetables; by depriving them of light)

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to stay up all night; to sit up all night; to do something all night

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bird catcher; bird handler (oft. chicken); bird catching; bird handling (oft. chicken)

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to catch; to capture; to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street)

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eyelid

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to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)

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(a) principle; (a) reason; (a) point; some truth

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drowsily; nodding off

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a day or two

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sleeping outdoors; sleeping out in the open air; camping

3

in the mountains; among the mountains

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transfer (of a call, patient, etc.); forwarding (a letter, email, etc.); redirection; transfer (of data); transmission

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to oversleep

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to ride past; to miss one's stop (train, bus, etc.)

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machine gun

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all manner of (verbal) abuse; all kinds of names; abusive language; torrent of abuse; stream of insults

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local train; slow train

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to not take seriously; to take lightly

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as (one) walks on, and on

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dull; stupid; thickheaded; slow; sluggish

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hurrying (to somewhere); rushing; hastening; express (train)

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section (of track, etc.); segment; dimension; interval

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prefecture (of Japan); county (of China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (of France); province (of Italy, Spain, etc.)

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outside (a region, area, etc.); out of range (of a mobile network, radar, etc.); outside the sphere (of influence, etc.); out of contention; out of reach

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announcement (esp. over public-address system); official announcement; formal information release

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unexplored region; secluded region; place off the beaten track

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good things come to those who wait

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to become covered in moss; to become mossy; to grow over with moss; to become aged; to grow old

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to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations

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Monday

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to turn one's back to

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after having come this far; now that we've come this far

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to listen carefully; to strain one's ears

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