jpdb beta

start; commencement; beginning; initiation

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butter

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round; circular; spherical; mellow (flavour, voice, etc.); mild; smooth

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chicken meat

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addition; supplement; appending; appendix

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ratio; proportion; percentage

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somewhat larger (amount); quite a lot; a little more (than usual); a little extra

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carrot (Daucus carota); Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng)

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eggplant (Solanum melongena); aubergine

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spinach

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tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

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pumpkin (Cucurbita sp.); squash

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cloth; fabric; dough; batter; inherent quality; one's true character; unglazed pottery

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to form; to shape; to make; to mold; to mould; to build up

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devising (a way); contriving; device; design; dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)

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being filled with; being full of; permeation

2

tasting; sampling

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to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of

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stiffening; rigidity; rigor; stiffness; ossification; petrification

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to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to absorb; to soak up

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spice

2

to attack; to assail; to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.); to make a sudden visit

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spicy; hot; salty; harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); painful

2

painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding

1

area; domain; territory; field; range; region

1

depths; deep place; bottom (of one's heart)

1

to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to

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to emit; to spout; to spurt; to boil over

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useless; vain; aimless; idle

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extremely spicy; fiery hot; extremely harsh (criticism, review, etc.); scathing

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

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to dish up; to arrange food (on a plate)

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red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

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depth; deep place

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deep (colour); dark; strong (flavour, smell, etc.); thick (consistency); dense; strong (possibility, etc.)

2

very interesting; of great interest

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to choke; to be choked by; to be stifled by

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to turn (one's face) away; to avert (one's eyes)

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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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does not seem (to be)

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even so; all the same; nevertheless; yes, but ...

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limit; bounds

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taste; liking; preference

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to each his own; people differ; different people (have different likes)

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forcing; compulsion; coercion; pushing (to do)

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one portion; one serving; adult; grown-up; fully fledged; established

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half

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alternate; alternating; mutual; reciprocal

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when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

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to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat

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