jpdb beta

direct; immediate; personal; firsthand

2

middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

1

man; male; masculine gender

1

suitable; appropriate; becoming; fitting

1

frivolous; flippant; superficial; shallow; trifling; insincere

1

disappointment; despair

1

to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to set free; to release; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)

3

bitter (e.g. criticism); sharp; biting; severe; scathing; harsh

1

to plan; to attempt; to plot; to conspire; to aim for; to strive for

1

unique; peculiar; singular

2

relief; embossed carving; bringing to the fore; throwing something into relief

1

older brother; elder brother

4

each; every; all

1

a head (e.g. taller or shorter); noticeable difference (in competitors' results)

1

to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear

1

duty; function; office; mission; task

3

sense of responsibility

2

(real) ability; true strength; merit; arms; force

2

no objection; nothing to criticize; nothing to criticise

1

bottom of one's heart; depths of one's mind; innermost thoughts; from the bottom of one's heart; wholeheartedly; truly

2

warmth

1

to spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail

2

to correct; to rectify; to reform; to straighten (one's posture, collar, etc.); to adjust

1

deep down; special place in one's heart; in the back of one's mind

2

irresponsible; blithe; heedless; devil-may-care; sloppy; slipshod

1

elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself

2

to judge (on the basis of); to control; to discipline (oneself); to regulate

2

the exact opposite

2

worthless; shit; disparaging; demeaning

3

to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)

3

to be discouraged; to be disheartened

1

with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names

2

to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together; to compete against somebody; to play (a game, match, etc.) against somebody

1

one turn; spinning around; complete change; reversal; (an) about-face

1

to entrust; to leave to a person

1

brother complex; excessive attachment to one's brother; black contemporary (music)

1

to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)

1

to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)

2

inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care

3

impressions; thoughts; feelings; reactions

1

well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...

1

stagnation; tie-up; standstill; congestion; delay; accumulation

1

to come to one's senses; to calm down

1

to follow; to pursue; to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one; to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)

1

assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)

1

reply; answer

3

to do by the use of

1

which; what (way)

1

to pose as; to (successfully) impersonate; to pretend to be; to (completely) become; to (fully) turn into

2

sensible; sensuous; intuitive

1