jpdb beta

critical (touch and go) situation; explosive situation

1

habit; (social) custom; practice; convention

10

to become (a state, condition, etc.)

5

happiness in the next world; heavenly bliss; repose of one's soul

2

betting; gambling

1

evasion; excuse; subterfuge; runaround

1

sharp, loud rebuke; bark; roar; rebuke used in Zen to achieve enlightenment

4

thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack

1

snake; serpent; large snake

6

large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together; clamp; tie (metaphorical, e.g. something that binds two people together); latch; lock

1

greens

1

to take a peep at; to catch a glimpse of

3

to distract one's attention

1

twelve o'clock; midnight; noon

1

pitiful; unfortunate; poor; unpardonable; regrettable

1

square shoulders

1

policing (an area, etc.) by oneself; protecting by oneself; cautioning oneself; taking care; local government police; municipal police

1

to cite as an example; to refer to; to quote

3

snappingly; with a snap; no more or less than; merely ...; exactly ...

2

tenacity; endurance

2

to rummage through; to ransack (e.g. a drawer); to throw into confusion; to disrupt; to upset

1

attack under the cover of darkness; surprise attack; sneak attack

2

to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; to be in a fix; to be in a desperate situation; to be in a pinch; to be in a predicament

4

cooking; kitchen work

1

to be proud; to be haughty; to be arrogant; to be conceited; to brag; to show off

1

approval; acceptance; recognition; private seal; signet

1

one's last moment; one's death; one's end

3

doubting; distrustful; incredulous; suspicious

2

to lure; to invite out

3

oxygen supply

2

card game

1

to call back; to recall

1

girl; baby girl; schoolgirl; girl pupil

1

portrait photo; mug shot; face shot; photograph of a person's face

1

piglet

3

village girl

1

case (container); case (instance, situation); case

10

strange; rare; novel; curious

4

to burn; to burn with (emotion, feeling); to be fired up

7

food; foodstuff; prey; victim

2

anyway; anyhow; as one likes; by all means; at any cost; no matter what it takes

2

to harmonize; to harmonise; to be in harmony; to say the same thing in unison (inadvertently)

1

roundish; sort of round

1

cough; ahem

11

coughing; hacking cough; thundering; drumming

1

dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened

2

so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense

6

sign of remorse; indication of regret

2

to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)

6

to impose a punishment (on); to punish

1