jpdb beta

strenuous efforts; exerting oneself; stirring oneself up; splurge; spending extravagantly (on); treating oneself (to)

2

utility; (actual) profit; actual benefit; material gain

1

honor; honour; prestige; dignity; honorary (e.g. president, doctorate)

1

supplementary prize; additional prize; auxiliary prize; bonus prize

5

monetary; financial; pecuniary

1

firm promise; definite promise

3

upper limit; supremum

1

money; cash

3

sometimes; occasionally; at times; seasonal; of the season; appropriate (for the season or occasion)

1

money; currency; coin

1

10,000,000; ten million

6

sink (e.g. in a kitchen); cruising (e.g. taxi); strolling (entertainer, musician, etc.); washing area (in a Japanese-style bath); back-washing service (in a public bath); floating (something on water)

1

100,000,000; one hundred million; 10^8

2

yen (currency of Japan); circle

1

and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless

1

wretched; miserable; shameful; mean; despicable; abject

1

pure; innocent; naive; unspoilt; pure-hearted; ingenuous

1

cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a building)

2

to buy up

1

amount of money; sum

4

to feel that something is true or actually happening; to hit one (realization, thought); to sink in

1

no!; no no!; no, not at all

1

to lean (to one side); to incline; to be unbalanced (e.g. diet); to be unduly weighted towards; to be partial; to be biased

2

money

2

to say; to speak; to tell; to be called

1

to ponder; to brood

2

consideration; examination; investigation; study; scrutiny; discussion

2

front-facing; forward-looking; positive; constructive

2

choices; alternatives; options

2

benefit; use; good; profit; gains

1

to digest; to break down; to break to pieces; to be able to use; to be good at; to finish; to complete

2

to be involved (in); to get involved (in); to relate to (a matter); to pertain to; to (seriously) affect; to concern

1

selling off; disposal by sale; sale

1

volunteer soldier

1

to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide

1

duty; obligation; responsibility

1

noninvolvement; nonintervention; neutrality

1

to grimace; to frown

1

top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile

2

anxiety; concern; fear

2

under the control (of); under the dominion (of)

2

use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement

1

to fix; to settle; to standardize; constant; definite; uniform

1

correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with

3

mankind; the human creature; fellow creatures

1

Stampede (The Doobie Brothers album)

1

undiscovered; not yet found; unexplored

1

black curtain; wirepuller; mastermind; backroom manipulator

2

act of God; irresistible force; inevitability; force majeure; vis major

1

viewing optimistically; thinking optimistically; taking an optimistic view; looking on the bright side

1