jpdb beta

ethics; ethical viewpoint; moral value; sense of duty; sense of ethics

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person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person

1

secret; private; surreptitious

3

to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to

1

possible; likely; probable

1

cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)

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executive secretary; coordinator; organizer; person in charge of making arrangements

1

fee; charge; rate; material

1

claim; demand; charge; application; request; billing (for a service)

1

buzz; hum; shake (with vigor); shaking

5

to shake one's head

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(a) glance; (a) look

5

halving; splitting evenly; sharing equally

1

having gone too far to turn back

2

to shrug one's shoulders

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greedy; grasping; tightfisted; predatory (e.g. business); calculating; avaricious

1

to ask a question; to ask questions

1

more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once

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characteristic; traditional; peculiar; inherent; native; eigen-

1

counter for people (usu. seating, reservations and such); first name; famous; great; name; noun

5

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

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three times; thrice; many times; over and over again; often

1

crime; sin; penalty; sentence; fault; responsibility

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thorny shrub; wild rose; briar; thorn; cusp

2

growing thickly; growing densely

3

reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)

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random; random sampling

2

naming; christening

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itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally

1

some; any; in any way; of some kind; of some sort

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will; volition; intention; intent; determination

3

to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud

2

wintry; very cold-looking (e.g. landscape); bleak (e.g. room, street); desolate; empty (of furnishings)

2

echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

3

to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry; to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on; to have a trace of; to be tinged with

3

to accompany; to go with; to go together

3

first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole

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bottom layer; undermost layer; lowest (societal) class; bottom (economic) stratum; lowest caste

1

origin; beginning

12

iron (Fe); strong and hard (as iron); railway; railway enthusiast

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palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign

7

enshrinement; installation (of an image)

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life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood

11

stone monument bearing an inscription (esp. memorial for future generations); stele; stela

8

Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people

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to visit; to call on; to pay a visit to

3

to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)

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to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use

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it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it

2

vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand

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