jpdb beta

farewell gift; parting gift; viaticum

2

pathos; sorrow; grief

3

incompetence; laziness; worthlessness; good-for-nothing; loser; weakling

1

chicken; coward; scaredy-cat; chicken

1

sarcastic; having a sharp tongue; having a sharp nasty tongue

1

cruel; inhumane; callous; brutal

1

snow; snowfall

5

well, I must admit ...

1

brazenly; unabashedly

2

the late; the deceased

3

concentration; diligence; asceticism; zeal in one's quest for enlightenment; adherence to a vegetarian diet

1

to climb over; to get over; to surmount; to overcome; to surpass; to overtake

7

to continue (walking)

2

convention; tired tradition; old custom

1

stout; corpulent; plump; voluptuous

2

aloof; proudly independent; standing apart; solitary

1

lonely person; someone who easily succumbs to loneliness

1

ten thousand years; eternity; perennial; perpetual

2

strike zone

1

personage; person (deserving of respect)

2

How do you do?; I am glad to meet you

1

anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside

5

brimming with youthful enthusiasm; in high spirits; raring to go; overflowing with youthful energy; acting all cute and charged up

1

calling out to someone with love or good will; phone call to a loved one; fervent request; heartfelt appeal

1

to be confused; to be bewildered; to be taken aback

8

suddenly; all of a sudden

1

to attack the enemy in his unguarded moment

2

soon; before long; shortly; close (by); near; nearby

2

big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)

2

revision (of a rule, price, etc.); alteration; change

2

exemption; exoneration; discharge

3

(it won't be possible) on such short notice

1

proposal; offer; request; application

11

whirling; revolving; coiling around; winding around; working tirelessly; working hard

1

supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor

3

something heard for the first time; hearing something for the first time

2

to declare; to plead

4

cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.)

1

vehement objection; bitter opposition

1

starting field which contains the November and/or December 20-point card

6

to meet face to face

1

to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other

1

to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)

2

to date; as of now

1

something broad and flat; common; ordinary; low-ranking employee; freshman

10

(some type of) enthusiast; somebody possessed of a (certain kind of) mental abnormality

2

skillful; skilful; adroit; clever; shrewd; ingenious

6

waking

5

unpleasant; disagreeable; abominable; unlucky; inauspicious; ominous

11

random attacker; slasher; demon who brings misfortune to houses or people he passes by

3