jpdb beta

teacher; instructor; teaching staff; faculty member

23

boarding student

3

pace; step; cadence

1

to loosen; to slacken; to relax (attention, efforts, etc.); to let down (one's guard); to relax (a rule); to ease (e.g. restrictions)

2

consideration; concern; fear; worry; solicitude

1

audiovisual room

1

perversity; perverse person; antagonistic demon in Japanese folklore; demon under the feet of temple guardian statues

1

to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour

2

to pin one's hope on; to look forward to; to look toward; to get one's hopes up

1

to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore someone's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task

3

bare rock; rock surface; rock face

2

younger; junior

5

to get a late start

4

ten-year-old; ten year old

2

entering school; school attendance

1

help; rescue; salvation; solace; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace

2

to read out; to read aloud; to call out; to finish reading; to read through

2

worldly wisdom; secret of success in life

2

Riddle; Rydl

4

isolated place; out-of-the-way place; remote part of the land

1

excessively spacious; unduly wide; sprawling

2

elm tree (esp. the Japanese elm, Ulmus davidiana var. japonica)

1

sports ground; playing field; playground

1

chapel; building used for worship (in front of the main hall of a Buddhist temple)

1

greenhouse; hothouse; conservatory; glasshouse

1

cricket (game)

13

clock tower

10

to assign; to allot; to allocate; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate

2

lock

5

to lock (a door, etc.); to lock up

3

entering a room; studying under a Buddhist teacher

1

awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely

15

stale; old fashioned; hackneyed; trite; antiquated; obsolete

2

to dig out; to pick up

5

to get between; to be caught in

4

telling a riddle

3

boarder; boarding student

1

learning; study

2

cynical

4

cold wind

3

distress; wretched condition

1

challenger

2

to be branded a ...; to be labelled a ...

1

school life

2

(not) in the least; (not) at all; (not) a bit

2

imp; elf; pixie; goblin; devilkin

7

symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); certain; unnamed; undisclosed

1

to be far apart (from); to be a long way off (from); to be remote; to be very different (from); to be quite unlike; to be far from (e.g. the truth)

3

ill-natured; mean; nasty; sadistic; cruel; mean-spirited

2

side (of the torso); flank; illegitimate child; child born by someone other than one's wife

3