jpdb beta

professor; teaching; instruction

1

decorations; offerings; mere window dressing

1

university professor; college professor

2

studio apartment; studio flat

1

to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop

1

to get sleep; to sleep

2

vigorously; with great force; energetically; enthusiastically; with spirit

2

English-language newspaper

1

expression; looks

2

holiday; day off; sleep; rest; good night

1

article; news story; report; account

5

space on a page (e.g. in a newspaper); surface of paper; letter; writings

1

by extension; in turn; by the same token; in addition; as well; consequently

2

performer

1

to rule; to govern; to reign over; to subdue; to suppress; to quell

6

ancestral; hereditary; handed down from generation to generation; for generations; from generation to generation

1

new type; new style; new model; new strain (e.g. infectious disease)

15

to criticize harshly; to blame; to accuse; to urge; to press

2

recovery; rescue; recapture

1

forcing (e.g. a vote); carrying out (forcibly); pushing ahead (with); enforcement

2

sense of responsibility

6

to narrow; to reduce; to contract

1

unreasonable; naughty

3

to drop to one's knees; to sink to one's knees

2

syringe; hypodermic needle; injector

1

abuse; misuse; misappropriation; using to excess

2

justification; rationalization

4

to distinguish in writing; to use different writing styles; to draw (identifiably)

1

borderline between life and death; verge of death; deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross)

2

temper; irritability; fit of anger; tantrum (esp. of children); temper tantrum

1

as a matter of fact; actually; effectively; in reality; in effect

9

dying message (message left by a murder victim just before death; in mystery novels, etc.)

1

to resign oneself (to); to reconcile oneself (to); to accept (e.g. defeat); to give up

2

variables; uncertain elements; uncertainties; imponderables

9

tomboy; rebounding; recovery; repercussions; rashness; incautiousness

1

to lick

2

(approximate) age; years; elderly; old; older (than); senior

1

positive; assertive; active; proactive; aggressive

11

counselor; counsellor

1

to be reliable

9

to celebrate; to congratulate; to present (a gift) in celebration; to drink in celebration; to wish for (a happy future, good fortune, etc.); to pray for

3

May; fifth month of the lunar calendar

2

Golden Week; string of public holidays in late April-early May

5

dead center; (right in the) middle; midst; midst (e.g. of a storm); heyday; (the) height (e.g. of a debate)

2

Kōshima

1

withering; shrivelling; shrinking; contraction; atrophy

5

just as; right after; in the act of; as soon as; at that moment

5

leaving early

4

end; termination point

4

drunkenness; intoxication

6