jpdb beta

student (esp. a university student)

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invoking a deity during a festival held in that deity's honor; medium's invocation of a deity to take possession of her (to receive his divine message or revelation)

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base; basis; base (e.g. military); depot; base; base bag

2

link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic

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decisive action; carrying out; resolute enforcement; execution

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to interfere (with); to hinder; to be hindered (from doing); to become impeded; to have difficulty; to suffer inconvenience

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festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy

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dignity; eminent; high ranking; high-order (digit, bit, etc.)

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soul; spirit; willpower; vitality; something as important as one's own life; something invaluable

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Imperial Household Agency

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spirit of a deceased person; the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit

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magical; sorcerous; supernatural

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head; chief; leader; the greatest (of all the ...)

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to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful

1

estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately

1

to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included

1

Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo); Yedo

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guardian; custodian

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remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude

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spirit of a deceased person

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ancestor; forefather; originator; pioneer; grandfather

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upper floor; upstairs; top of the stairs

1

to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with

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back (of a chair); backrest

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final

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proponent; exponent; advocate

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gods and Buddha; Shinto and Buddhism

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minister (of a government department)

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theory

2

construction; building; putting up; erecting; creation; formulation

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three times

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practice; putting into practice; implementation; praxis

2

until now; still; yet; (not) yet; since

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riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious

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something broad and flat; common; ordinary; low-ranking employee; freshman

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then; if so; if

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to go through the proper procedures; to follow the required steps

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in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

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to start to move; to get going; to come alive

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to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected

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sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

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earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)

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(urban) prefecture (i.e. Osaka and Kyoto); centre (e.g. of learning); center; (government) office; fu (administrative unit in China, Korea and Vietnam)

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to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)

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being startled

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to look up

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so; like that; that's right; indeed; let me see ...

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rites; ritual

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secret ceremony; ritual; sanctum sanctorum

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edition; version; plate; block; counter for editions of a publication

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