jpdb beta

to make (someone) understand (a fault, mistake, etc.); to reason with; to advise; to try to persuade; to exhort; to admonish

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successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another

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it serves you (him) right; it's what you (he) deserves

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klop; klunk; whonk; with a heavy impact; forcibly

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to go away; to become more distant; to fade away; to be estranged

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to meet (by chance); to come across; to run across; to encounter; to happen upon

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to love one another; to be affectionate towards each other; to have sex; to make love

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to be (deeply) touched by; to be struck by

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face of (feigned) innocence; blank look

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to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune

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to mean

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moving first; person with the first move; forestalling; (seizing the) initiative; sente; move that forces a response from the opponent, allowing the player to retain the initiative

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gushing forth; bursting out; (lit.) like breaking a dam

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equilibrium; good balance; poise

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to sit cross-legged; to rest on one's laurels; to be self-complacent

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next-door neighbors; (living, sitting) next to each other

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simple; easy

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to begin to tremble

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profoundly memorable

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closely-guarded secret; top secret

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to tell; to (try to) persuade; to advise; to warn; to admonish; to reason

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to think deep down (that); to tell oneself (that); to secretly believe (that)

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miraculous

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pup; puppy; whelp; damn dog; mutt

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diminutive; dwarfish; pygmy; narrow (e.g. thinking); small

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wretched; miserable; shameful; mean; despicable; abject

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deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out

2

taking a story with a grain of salt; discounting half the story

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if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say

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easy to imagine

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impudent; shameless; brazen; forward; audacious; cheeky

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to compare

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to search for; to seek for; to look for

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friend; companion; comrade; accompaniment; companion (e.g. book); complement

2

to return a favor (favour); to repay

2

hard; tough; hardware; hard disk (drive)

3

in plain words; in plain terms; put simply

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evening; evening hour

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to become vulgar; to coarsen

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to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in

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suspicion; distrust

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everyday occurrence

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to push someone (towards); to encourage someone

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running; gliding; first (harvest) of the season; beginning; start; kitchen sink

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quite a chore; not that easy; fairly difficult

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to grow up; to become an adult

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transforming oneself; taking on another form; disguising oneself; artificial fly (for fishing)

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to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off

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relation; relationship

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handmade; handcrafted; homemade; homegrown

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