jpdb beta

big-shot; influential person; happy face; smiling face; sympathetic attitude; getting along with

3

gently (raining); drizzling; moist; damp

1

umpire; referee

1

cap (headwear); cap (of a bottle, pen, etc.); leader; chief

1

polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful

2

a set of three bouts; three-game match; three-bout contest

1

blast; puff; whiff; gust

1

acquisition; possession

1

useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated

1

bombing (raid)

2

to grasp; to get

2

bloody battle

1

judgement; judgment; refereeing; umpiring; referee; umpire

2

romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance

1

presentation (e.g. of a gift, etc.)

2

presence; dignity

1

covering; protection; backing; relief

1

flag

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to take one's place; to take one's position; to go into position; to line up

1

to lie down; to throw oneself down

5

if I (we, etc.) could

1

superman; superwoman; Ubermensch (e.g. Nietzsche's ideal man of the future); overman

2

in proportion to; just as much as

1

miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.); cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.); (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors

3

don't let your guard down; carelessness is the great enemy; danger comes soonest when it is despised

1

no problem

2

restless; fidgety; lively; busy

1

snakelike; snaky; serpentine

1

lapis lazuli; lapis lazuli (color); beryl; mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail); glass

1

sliding; being just in time

1

warming (limbering) up; warming-up exercises

2

satisfying; pleasing; gratifying

1

salty; calculating; stingy; scowling; grimacing; hoarse

1

visitor (to a factory, school, lab., etc.)

2

loss; defeat; counter for losses

1

final game; final games; the finals

1

promise; agreement; arrangement; something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)

1

these days; nowadays; present day; at this time (of the day)

2

ages; long time; decade; ten years (ago)

1

anything and everything; from top to toe; from A to Z

2

white flag; truce flag; surrender flag

1

break (in the weather, esp. rain or snow); interval of clear weather; patch of blue sky; (arch.) period of serenity

1

indicates concession or compromise; indicates permission

1

teary-eyed; damp (e.g. skin, hair); moist

1

ambition; aspiration; desire to improve oneself

1

particularly; only; in the case of

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to overwhelm (e.g. an opponent); to overpower; to overwhelm (someone with emotion); to move; to intimidate; to frighten

1

to approve of

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pel

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starting to walk

5