jpdb beta

to pierce

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proficient; skillful; enjoying; satisfaction; satiation

1

room; wife (of someone of high rank); scabbard; Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

1

all; everything

2

acting; performance

1

utensil; implement; tool; instrument; appliance; apparatus

2

process; procedure; sequence; protocol; instruction

1

simplicity; convenience; easiness; quasi-

1

handwriting; handwritten; hand-painted; hand-drawn

1

timewasting; killing time

1

shall I?; shall we?

1

particular; special; (not) particularly; (not) especially

4

not one to talk; who are you to say; look who's talking

3

research results

2

even if; (it doesn't matter) whether (A or B or ...); whatever; should

3

not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work

3

to storm in with a yell

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indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)

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with a clink (click, clack)

1

healing; cure; recovery

4

revival; resuscitation; revitalization; rejuvenation; regeneration

1

to revive; to come to oneself; to be restored to life

3

desk; copy editor

3

to draw near; to draw closer; to press (e.g. for an answer); to hound

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spiderweb; spider web; spider's web; cobweb

1

tie; necktie

2

charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage

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to have one's neck wrung

1

to thrust away; to send flying

2

best one could ask for; just what one wants; welcome (news); heaven-sent

1

there is no God!; it's a cruel world; (lit.) there is no god or Buddha

1

face-to-face

1

to have; to possess; to own; to be endowed with

2

it is darkest under the lamp post; it's hard to see what is under your nose; go abroad to hear of home; you must go into the country to hear what news at London

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Japan

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wild; growing wild; living in the wild; (arch.) I

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to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin

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last resort; desperate measure taken under pressure of necessity

1

ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan

1

assassination

1

to need; to call for; to require

2

race (of people); type of person

2

to worry about; to be anxious about; to be concerned about; to lament; to grieve; to feel sorrow for

1

ignoring (one thing) for (another)

1

panel; wainscoting; wainscotting; plight; fix; bind

1

to float; to rise to the surface; to stand out; to be visible; to be alienated

4

to doubt; to think (something is) doubtful; to wonder; to be suspicious

4

to fiddle with; to monkey around with

1

end; final; end of life; death; never; not at all

1

whip; lash; scourge; stick; cane; rod

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