jpdb beta

fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)

3

cold; chilly; cold (attitude, stare, etc.); frigid; composed; cool

3

unfeeling; heartless; cold-hearted; cruel

1

unkindness; inhumanity; heartlessness

4

deeply; keenly; severely; intently; carefully; closely

4

to run away; to flee; to avoid (a question, responsibility, etc.); to evade; to win without being overtaken; to hold off the other contenders (until the finish)

1

Hakui

4

Shukusei

4

Buddhist

1

Meteora

1

precipice; cliff; flat head

1

pointed end; tip; point; forefront; vanguard; spearhead

1

draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; something full of holes; zaru soba; strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish

1

there is no God!; it's a cruel world; (lit.) there is no god or Buddha

1

Buddha; Shakyamuni; Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; the dead; dead person

1

atheism

1

human realm; world of humans; terrestrial world

3

destruction; disruption; (application) crash

5

advocate; disputant; debater; (present) writer; author

2

weak person; the weak

1

substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange

2

gloomy; dismal; miserable; spirit of yin

2

servile; subservient; obsequious; slavish; self-abasing; grovelling

2

pessimistic; gloomy

2

slowly; tardily; complaining; grumbling; unsettled (e.g. weather); loose

2

scolding; telling-off; rebuke; complaint; grumbling; fault-finding

4

to mutter; to murmur; to grumble; to tweet; to post on Twitter

2

Minister of War (Zhou dynasty China)

1

doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness

12

tone; manner of speaking

1

immoral

1

immoral

1

human intellect; knowledge

1

to wed; to be married; to shift blame to someone else

2

to take the blame; to take responsibility; to assume liability; to bear the burden

1

nothing but (this); no more than (this); none other than

1

attaching too much importance to; overestimation; overrating

2

rich person; millionaire; the wealthy

2

conclusion (of an argument, discussion, study, etc.); conclusion

2

God's gift; God's blessing; grace of God; godsend

3

Heaven's blessing; gift of nature; natural resources

2

Roosevelt

1

hardships of poverty; serious poverty

1

to praise extravagantly; to lionize; to lionise; to make much of

2

as soon as; no sooner than; one way or another; objection

1

to face on; to look out on to

1

disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes

1

logic; reasoning; argument; line of argument

1

to fall ill; to be taken ill

2

the very image of health itself; picture of health

1