jpdb beta

foresight; foreknowledge; divination

3

daredevil; foolhardy warrior; hotspur

1

to stake; to risk; to bet; to wager

3

to be; to do

1

Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi); coixseed; tear grass; adlay

8

forming a circle; circular formation (orig. in battle); huddle; ring

2

(moral) backbone; spirit; soul; grit

3

idle thoughts; worldly thoughts

2

sense of defeat

1

great lie; falsehood

2

heart and soul; one's soul (heart)

1

reading; perusing

1

redundancy; superfluity; useless addition

2

byway; bypath; byroad; loophole; excuse

3

to hold one's breath (in fear, anxiety, etc.)

2

stick-to-itiveness; perseverance; radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily); root; indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs)

1

research division; research club (e.g. at school, university)

1

kamado; traditional Japanese wood or charcoal-fueled cook stove

2

safe; certain

2

pentagram (as used in divination, etc.)

7

mobilization order; mobilisation order

1

rush hour; rush-hour

1

habu (Trimeresurus flavoviridis); yellow-spotted pit viper

1

two o'clock

2

the capital city (often Tokyo) area (typically within 50 km of city's centre) (center)

3

to be dented; to be indented; to be beaten; to be overwhelmed; to be disheartened; to feel down

2

exposed; scanty; bare; public; open

4

mania; enthusiasm; maniac; enthusiast; nut

3

aspiration; volunteering; desire; application

7

inside pocket

1

letter of introduction

1

solicitude; consideration; concern; (excessive) kindness

1

to attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side-by-side; to make someone get married; to get someone hitched

1

previous conviction; criminal record; previous offense; previous offence

3

jam-packed; packed in like sardines

1

close thicket; dense forest; jungle; amazon.com

1

to resist; to defy

12

large number of people

1

getting mixed up in; getting embroiled in; involvement; entanglement; by-blow

2

conquest (of a difficulty, illness, handicap, etc.); overcoming; bringing under control; subjugation; victory over

1

stopping (of a train, car, etc.); stop

2

dying in vain; wasteful sacrifice of life

2

with a start; with a jump

2

to judge; to decide; to solve; to decipher; to divine; to guess

5

prejudice; bias; distorted view

2

quickly and skillfully; to the point; succinctly; concisely

1

(passenger) fare; freight rates; shipping expenses

1

limited express (train for which a limited-express ticket is required); limited express (train making a limited no. of stops); great hurry

1

(telephone) call; (telephone) ring; shout; call; call loan (e.g. 30-day call); call money

1

blocking communications (from a phone number or an e-mail address)

1