jpdb beta

bile; gall

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spoiled; spoilt; ruined; wasted (chance, etc.); messed up; destroyed

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one by one; each; every; at intervals of

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fish hook

3

to sew together; to stitch together; to sew up; to switch up

1

easy to use

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government management

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tweezers (esp. in a medical or laboratory setting); forceps

1

skilled; skillful; skilful; competent; capable; good

1

ill-bred; impolite; rude; impudent; insolent; blunt

1

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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connection; relation

2

to rise (suddenly) in the world (to a higher position)

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putting an entire family to death; eradicating a whole family

3

important post; important office; key position

2

to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence

1

paperwork

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slender; slim

1

to carry in one's hand; to carry with one; to have on one's person; to take along (someone); to take (someone) with one; to be accompanied by

1

to (be able to) agree (with); to be able to accept; to find acceptable; to be convinced; to understand

1

sense of defeat

1

start of a romance; beginning of love

1

conspiracy; collusion; complicity

2

both extremes

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idiosyncrasy

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weak constitution

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to happen to hear; to overhear

2

the Snake (sixth sign of the Chinese zodiac); the Serpent; hour of the Snake (around 10am, 9-11am, or 10am-12 noon); south-southeast; fourth month of the lunar calendar

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to be descended from; to be drawn from (the tradition of); to be derived from; to follow the school (tradition) of

1

intelligence agency; secret service

1

to begin to write; to begin writing; to begin to draw; to begin drawing; to begin painting

2

a puff; a smoke; (short) rest; break; one dose (of medicine or poison); (brief) lull

1

going on a pleasure jaunt

2

elite; best; pick; cream of the crop

1

with a crack; with a cracking sound; with one's veins about to burst (from pent-up anger)

1

to send (something) unsolicited; to send without the receiver's request

2

ceramics

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top quality products

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circumference; perimeter; work outside the office; outer tracks (in a loop or curve)

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hunter; huntsman

5

public bathhouse; bathhouse proprietor

3

bathtub; boat with a bathtub rented to customers (Edo period)

3

fee charged at a public bath

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spring roll

3

languid; weary; listless; melancholy

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behaviour; behavior; conduct

4

obstacle

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dried bear's gallbladder (used in traditional Chinese medicine)

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dried bear's gallbladder (used as a medicine)

2

to take over; to obtain by transfer; to inherit; to buy; to purchase

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