jpdb beta

secret techniques (of an art or skill); inner mysteries; essence; quintessence; heart

4

sweating; perspiration; sudation; hidrosis; diaphoresis

1

rebellious spirit; defiant attitude

1

inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive

1

national budget

1

auction

1

prosperity; bustle; activity; crowd; turnout

2

reservation; putting on hold; deferment; withholding

1

surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)

2

suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows

2

home area; home town; local

1

to leave space (between)

1

special training; intensive training; crash course

1

adoration; admiration; devotion

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suspicion (of others); jealousy

1

presentation

2

invitation

1

self-hatred; self-abhorrence; self-loathing

1

fumbling; groping

2

nonchalantly; calmly; as if nothing happened

1

circuitous; roundabout; indirect

1

restraining (someone); restraint

1

to read (someone's) thoughts; to guess what (someone) is thinking

1

to cut one's own throat; to dig one's own grave; to cause oneself harm; to bring ruin on oneself

4

to ignore (a fault, misstep, issue, etc.); to disregard; to overlook; to pass over; to let go unquestioned

1

to persuade; to urge; to coax; to make advances (to); to seduce; to court

2

to violate the law

1

sinner; evildoer; wrongdoer

1

to change direction

1

half-elf (in fantasy)

1

internal conditions; true state of affairs

4

be (that) as it may; having said that

6

standing for; advocating; championing; professing (to be)

1

to claim lives; to cause deaths; to result in fatalities

2

full operation

2

cultural sphere

1

funny; amusing; strange; odd; wrong; unsuitable

2

section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.; maxim

1

I would be most grateful if you could ...; I would humbly ask that you ...; please ...

2

ferocious; brutal; atrocious; savage; barbarous

2

to sharpen one's claws

2

merger; joining into one; amalgamation; melding; merging; annexation

4

enemy nation

4

preliminary inspection; having a look in advance; preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes); siding (on a house); clapboard

1

as much as one wants; as many as one wants; all that one wishes for

1

oak; orc (fictional humanoid creature); ork

2

detestable; disagreeable; disgusting; odious; unpleasant; repugnant

1

customer; client

1

one's company; company one works for; in-house; belonging to the company

2

to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)

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