jpdb beta

third year of junior high school; third-year junior high school student

3

opinion; view; comment; scolding; reprimand; rebuke

2

school festival; cultural festival; annual open day school event showcasing student talent

1

to stay behind; to remain; to work overtime

1

to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical

1

whatever way; any way; either way; one way or the other

1

with a friendly grin; smilingly

2

agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning

1

misunderstanding

1

frequent; incessant

1

to invite; to call out

1

to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone

5

at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much as possible; as much as one can

2

stop; stoppage; end

1

disreputable; scandalous; disgraceful

1

laughter breaks out

1

apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but

1

to bring someone along

1

baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team

1

serious; earnest; sober; honest; sincere

4

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)

1

Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny

1

unfortunately; regrettably

1

preliminary contest; qualifying round; trial; preliminary selection; screening (e.g. of applicants); provisional election

1

being defeated; being eliminated (from competition)

1

affable; sociable; friendly

1

distinction; favoritism; favouritism; discrimination

1

point of tangency; point of contact; (electrical) contact; point of contact (between); connection

1

to be open (to traffic); to lead (to); to flow (of a liquid, current, etc.); to pass (through); to be conveyed (of an intention, meaning, etc.); to be understood (by); to be well versed (in)

1

teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder

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26; twenty six

1

to say enough (as much as required); to say plenty; to say well; to say cleverly; to say often; to say frequently

2

to speak badly (of); to speak ill (of); to bad-mouth

1

primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens)

8

to come loose (of clothing); to come undone (e.g. of a dress); to become dishevelled; to be worn out of shape

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attendance record

4

to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)

2

to have an accident; to meet with an accident

1

attendance (at school); going to school

3

staff room

2

everyone; everybody; all; everything; all

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stealthily; secretly

2

surname; family name; last name

1

oh, yes?; really?

3

uh-oh; oops; sorry

1

to mishear; to fail to catch; to miss (the chance to hear)

1

no; you're welcome; not at all; don't mention it

1

safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction

7

rice field on flat land; unterraced paddy

1

bus hijacking

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