jpdb beta

to slip out; to steal out; to excel; to stand out

1

to spur on; to urge forward; to impel; to drive at high speed (e.g. a car)

1

villain; baddie; the villain's part

1

ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody

1

(professional) storyteller; hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court

1

announcement of time; time signal; news report; newsletter

1

writing something on commission; newly written text

1

instant noodles sold in soft plastic packaging

1

great antiquity; old-fashioned; long ago

1

elementary school (in Japan; 1886-1941); primary school

1

grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man

1

person with low tastes; uncultured person; worldly person; ordinary person (who has not entered the priesthood); layperson; layman

1

growth period; growing season

2

like everyone else; like most people; like an ordinary person; as much as anyone else

1

branch road; forked road; branch; crossroads (of a course of events); turning point; parting of the ways

1

game cartridge

1

close examination; careful investigation; investigation of a crime; inquiry into someone's guilt; winner (of the most rounds, i.e. a full game); (arch.) reciting and appreciating traditional poetry

4

empty stomach; hunger

1

to be infected; to be contagious

1

to divide; to separate; to share; to distribute; to distinguish

1

to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)

1

ramen restaurant; noodle restaurant

2

(inferior) imitator; epigone; poor imitation; follower; adherent; person belonging to the same school (e.g. of thought)

1

external; foreign (e.g. relations); public (e.g. image)

1

heavy drinker

1

Kélo, Chad

1

amount of drink; one's drinking capacity

1

fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)

1

to abandon (ship)

2

change; transformation; innovation; Reformation

2

being settled; coming to a conclusion

1

slightly cloudy

1

look of the sky; weather

1

to put up (a notice); to post

1

to drain; to flow (unobstructed); to sell well; to be in good demand; to exit the stage; to remove (a prop) from the stage

1

cancellation (of a lecture, class, etc.)

3

word processor

1

gathering spot; haunt; rendezvous; meeting place; hang-out

1

smoking

2

it's no big deal; it's no problem; it's nothing to worry about; safe (and sound); all right

1

silly; foolish; absurd; childish; easy; trifling

1

merrymaking (esp. wine and women); pleasures

1

classic (work, esp. book); the classics

1

theatrical elocution

1

to be precocious; to be mature for one's age; to seem grown-up; to seem mature

1

to be like-minded; to have the same goal

1

saying too much

1

to hurl abuse (at); to use abusive language

1

adult; grown-up; person who has come of age; fully fledged; established; qualified

1

rim; brim; edge; brink

1