jpdb beta

company president; manager; director

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son

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performer; entertainer; celebrity

1

celebrity; personality; prominent figure

1

to teach; to take a teaching job

2

most; highest; maximum; best; wonderful; finest

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status

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of course; certainly; naturally

1

pressure

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seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be

2

last night; yesterday evening

1

to be extremely sleepy; to be at the brink of falling asleep

1

rapid (e.g. progress)

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distant

3

to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way; to resign; to retire; to quit

3

to render futile; to bring to naught; to waste; to not make good use of

1

already; too late

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to get dark; to grow dark; to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought)

1

encounter; being confronted with (e.g. difficulty); meeting with (e.g. accident)

1

handbag; shopping bag

1

return; welcome home

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to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)

3

hardworking; studious

3

to lose (something); to mislay; to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove

1

passing each other; missing (meeting) each other; failing to meet; (being at) cross purposes; discrepancy

1

to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something

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to close (at a certain point); to cut short; to round up (number); to revalue (currency)

3

cold; short; curt; blunt

1

fast (walking); quick; brisk; quick (passing of time); rapid; swift

2

(arch.) to deceive; (arch.) to fool; (arch.) to lie; to commit adultery

1

several day period

3

to try to (do); to want to; to be about to (do, happen)

1

plain; frank; candid; open; direct; straightforward

2

the more I think about it; the more one thinks about it

3

to begin to write; to start writing; to write out (e.g. on a blackboard); to extract (and write down); to write down (the important parts); to export

1

to be too numerous; to be too much

1

to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase

1

dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip; going the long way round; making a detour

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(one's) exclusive use; private use; dedicated use; use for a particular purpose; exclusive use (of particular products); using only (e.g. a certain brand)

1

book; literary work

1

woman; girl; daughter; Chinese "Girl" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

1

both (people)

5

to accompany; to follow; to keep up with

5

relation; relationship

4

retrogression; reversal; relapse; doubling back; backtracking

1

report card

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

1

to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included

4

with a grinding noise

1

to sit at a desk (to study); to set to work on revision, homework, etc.

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