jpdb beta

cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat

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to bloom; to flower; to blossom; to open

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no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about

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several days later

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to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread

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Shinto shrine

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white

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pigeon; dove

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long ago; already; a long time ago

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extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out

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should (be); bound (to be); nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out

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passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)

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Earth; the globe

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(motion of) precession of the equinoxes; precession

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subtle; delicate; difficult; complex; doubtful; questionable

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to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate

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that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that

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Nikkei (newspaper, share index)

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average; mean; balance; equilibrium

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futures; futures contract

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October; tenth month of the lunar calendar

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all-time high (price, in trading); record high; new high

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all-time low (price, in trading); record low; new low

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empty air; sky; shunyata; emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness

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yo!; hello there!; wow!; oh!; yah! (yell)

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small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive

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foreshadowing; preparation; precautionary measures

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inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care

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perhaps; likely; probably; I dare say

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slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)

1

possibly; by some possibility; perhaps

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incomplete; unfinished

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to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish

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to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up

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yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's

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to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)

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to play a leading role; to play a central part

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being ...

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engine; agency; organisation; system; facility

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school; sect; party

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to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)

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a lot; lots; enough; sufficient; enough; too many

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underwater; behind closed doors; behind the scenes; below the surface

1

various; varied; diverse; all sorts of

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dispute; resistance

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bloody; gory; covered in copious amounts of blood; desperate; frantic

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extermination; annihilation

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war; battle; match; game; competition

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digest

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to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach

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