jpdb beta

to try to unsettle someone; to throw off balance

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careful thought; consideration; deliberation; reflection; rumination; pondering

1

softly; gently; lightly

2

light (color, taste, etc.); faint (e.g. smell); pale; faint (feeling, hope, etc.); fleeting; slight

1

scale; wing scale

15

feebleness; weakness

1

strength; power; proficiency; ability

2

proof; evidence; sign; witnessing; testifying; testimony

1

to shine; to glitter

1

lightly (floating, drifting, etc.); buoyantly; soft; fluffy; unsteadily; flightily

1

survivor

3

brightness; brilliance; brilliancy; radiance; glitter

1

with a clatter; with a rattle; (almost) empty; (mostly) vacant; raspy (voice); gravelly; with a gargle

1

burying alive

2

1,000; one thousand

1

to wrap up

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to undergo great hardships; to waste away from great effort and worry

1

one line; (a) single line; boundary; line (between things); forefront; front line

1

to hold fast; to protect to the end

3

restraint; restriction; fetters; binding; confinement with rope

1

remarkably; markedly; rapidly; sound of breaking or creaking

1

absolutely; definitely; unconditionally

1

to torment; to punish; to treat harshly; to beat up; to give a drubbing; to cause damage to

2

protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)

2

to be contrary; to run counter (to); to conflict (with); to disagree (with)

1

to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten

2

painstaking (e.g. effort); excruciating (e.g. hard work); grueling

1

hypocrite; dissembler; wolf in sheep's clothing; fox in a lamb's skin

1

to bear; to endure

2

to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric

1

laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)

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to seize the initiative

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to leave a trail; to leave traces; to have a lasting effect

3

to answer a question

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satisfaction; contentment; sufficient; satisfactory; satisfying (an equation)

2

after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably

1

cannot be compared (with); being no match (for)

1

hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe

5

cripple; disabled person; invalid; (game, internet, etc.) addict

1

the other; the other one

1

passage (of people or vehicles); passing (through); traffic; common usage; widespread use

1

cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); feline; shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom (submissive partner of a homosexual relationship)

1

suddenly; with a jerk

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loose; lenient; lax; gentle (curve, slope, etc.); slow; weak; soft

1

to make do errands; to set to scutwork

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idiotic; dolt; bonehead

1

to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound

1

temporal region; regio temporalis (capitis)

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to tear off; to rip off

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spray; splash

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