jpdb beta

to get into a fight; to take up the gauntlet; to accept a challenge

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small number of people

2

lawfulness; propriety; reasonableness; appropriateness; legality; legitimacy

2

to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)

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one by one; one after another; successively

4

to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)

10

contagion; infection

3

war; battle; match; game; competition

3

inexperienced; unfamiliar (with); unversed; lacking experience

7

brush tip; first on a list; head; chief

4

circumstances; sequence of events; how things got this way; details; particulars

8

corner; section; one horn; pillar (of a group, system, etc.); member (of an organization, etc.); first corner

11

to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind

14

number of times; frequency; count

1

healthy; sound; wholesome

7

to commit a crime; to commit a sin

2

state of mind; mentality; psychology

4

specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit

1

showy; ostentatious

3

to suffer mentally; to be in emotional pain

1

to throw oneself (into an activity)

7

battle; war; fight (against time, poverty, etc.); struggle (for freedom, survival, etc.); contest; competition

5

inferiority (e.g. numerical); inferior position; disadvantage; unfavorable situation; unfavourable situation

1

strategist; tactician; schemer

1

sense of impending crisis; sense of danger

5

to be possible; to be conceivable; to be likely; to be probable

14

dustbin of history; ash heap of history; obscurity; long-forgotten memory

1

to abandon; to leave behind

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reverberation; swelling (of a hymn); lingering memory; aftertaste; suggestiveness (of a book, poem, etc.)

3

taking captive; carrying away; kidnapping; kidnaping; abduction

7

to push; to thrust; to press (down); to push (e.g. a button); to stamp (e.g. one's name); to affix (a seal); to affix (e.g. gold leaf)

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period; Nihon Shoki (second oldest work of Japanese history, compiled in 720 CE); Nihongi; Kii (former province located in present-day Wakayama and southern Mie prefectures)

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rice field

13

(telephone) receiver

15

to open one's mouth wide and eat heartily; to gulp down food

6

to be sticky; to be close together

1

quiz

4

guest

3

cold; chill; cold weather; cold wave; cold air

2

pore (of the skin)

1

being out of time; passing the deadline; time-out

4

male; manly; brave; larger (of the two); greater; (arch.) man

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multi-

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to be hard (to do); to be difficult; to require much effort; to be laborious; to be backbreaking; to have trouble (doing)

3

to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check

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to ask (someone to do); to invite; to tempt; to entice; to allure

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to lean against; to lean on; to recline on; to lie heavy (on the stomach); to be uneasily digested

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interest (in something); enthusiasm

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omniscience (of a buddha)

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careful; cautious; wary; watchful; vigilant; prudent

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