jpdb beta

rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown

2

to (be able to) agree (with); to be able to accept; to find acceptable; to be convinced; to understand

1

odious; hateful; detestable; (speaking ironically) darling

1

being settled quickly; reaching a quick conclusion; no need to say any more; no problem

1

ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice

1

to bend by twisting; to twist; to contort; to distort (e.g. the truth); to twist (e.g. someone's words)

1

to benefit; to profit; to gain; to reap rewards

1

training; education; stocking up; laying in; preparation (e.g. ingredients); girl studying to become a geisha

1

invasion (e.g. of a country); raid; aggression

1

to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.); to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)

1

ticket; token; label; tag; sign; card; playing card

1

square

1

lattice; latticework; lattice door; check(ed) pattern; plaid

1

to trace (drawing); to follow; to imitate; to copy; to reproduce

2

delineation; demarcation; drawing a line (e.g. between what's acceptable and unacceptable); (measuring) ruler

1

to plant; to transplant; to instil (idea, feeling, etc.)

4

acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition; cognition

2

sense of values; values; value system

3

essence; true nature; substance; reality

2

to gouge out; to cut out; to scoop out; to bring to light; to reveal

1

contour; outline; summary; outline; looks; features

3

to put oneself on guard; to stand ready; to square off

1

activity; action; occupation; business; sexual intercourse; sex

2

to interweave

2

scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)

1

gardening; gardener

1

to recall; to remember

1

various; varied; diverse; all sorts of

2

attempt; trial; experiment; endeavour (endeavor); effort; venture

1

memories; recollections; reminiscence

1

to constrict one's chest; to wring one's heart; to wrench one's heart

1

lazy; idle; indolent; slothful

2

apathy; lassitude; lethargy; languor

1

settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony

5

looking down

1

if possible; if it is in my power; if it was realistic

1

selfish; self-centred; egotistical

4

to coagulate; to congeal; to be fanatical (about); to be obsessed (with); to stiffen; to become stiff

1

to proceed with; to continue with; to move on; to go forward; to pursue

1

violence; assault; rough (handling, language, etc.); reckless; rape; sexual assault

2

to make up for; to compensate for; to indemnify; to recompense; to redeem (e.g. a fault); to atone for

1

to divide; to separate; to partition; to punctuate; to mark off (with a comma); to insert pauses (between words or phrases when reading aloud)

1

cooperative body; cooperative system; collective; community

1

ethics; ethical viewpoint; moral value; sense of duty; sense of ethics

2

to come from; to have roots in

2

outsider; one not included in the favored group; outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo

1

easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic

1

leader; guide; mentor; coach

2

system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

1

to push aside; to overcome (e.g. difficulties); to align; to put in order; (arch.) to push open

1