jpdb beta

hemisphere

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expansion; swelling; increase; growth

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seawater; saltwater

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dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook

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to shake; to waver; to tremble

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to calculate; to compute; to deduce; to infer; to conclude

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conch (esp. Charonia tritonis); trumpet shell

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seashell; shell

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layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; local manners; modern customs; common; popular

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success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence

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coming-of-age ceremony

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pleasure; supreme pleasure obtained by freeing oneself from earthly desires

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pupils who are not members of any school club; (lit.) go-home club

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to be hairy (of a person); to be thickly bearded; to be dense (of vegetation); to be thick; to be slow (of a person); to be dull

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pankration (ancient Greek martial art)

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worker; (manual) laborer; labourer; blue-collar worker

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open every day of the year; open year-round; operating 365 days a year

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croquette

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chikuwa; tube-shaped fish paste cake

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omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; skimping; tenuki; playing elsewhere on the board instead of responding locally

1

dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)

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priority; preference; preferential right; right of way

1

match; game; bout; contest

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mixed martial arts; MMA

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versus; vs.; v.

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to underrate; to belittle; to look down on; to despise

1

skill learned in one's former days; using one's experience from the past

1

pitcher; pitcher (container); jug

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Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Koshien which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments; High school baseball in Japan, the tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium; Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, a neighborhood of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan; Koshien Stadium (baseball park in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture); National High School Baseball Tournament (held annually in August at Koshien Stadium); Summer Koshien; National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament (held annually in March at Koshien Stadium)

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to hold (someone) down; to pin down; to wrestle to the ground

2

grain of boiled rice

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constant attendance; uninterrupted supervision; staying with someone all the time

1

incessant working; working non-stop

1

(young) person subsisting on part-time work; person whose livelihood is provided by part-time work

1

last spurt; final spurt; home stretch

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distrust; unjust suspicion

2

cohabitation (esp. of an unmarried couple); living together

2

to call on someone; to call at a place; to ask; to inquire; to hear; to be told

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thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love

4

no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than

1

conceit; hubris; vanity; presumption

1

to jabber; to chatter; to chat with

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to go on about (one's love affairs); to speak proudly of (one's spouse, girlfriend, etc.); to speak fondly of

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syllabary; phonetic symbol

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Satori; folklore monster that can read minds

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folk tale; folktale; folk story; folklore

3

culmination; southing; crossing the meridian

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the preceding visitor

2

to walk in on; to tread upon

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if you like; if you prefer; if ... doesn't suit you; if you don't like ...; what's more; furthermore

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