jpdb beta

there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)

1

to live; to make a living; to get on with

1

Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)

1

to be refined (character, manners); to be classy; to be polished

1

bunch of flowers; bouquet

1

grand; luxurious; lavish; great; large; big (e.g. storm)

2

payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing

3

pot; volcanic crater; (one's) buttocks; male homosexual; effeminate man

2

(one's) older sister; (one's) elder sister; girl

1

going to work; leaving for work; attendance (at work); being at work; presence (in the office); reporting for work

1

thrown kiss; blown kiss; air kiss

1

to dry up; to parch; to ebb away

1

very messy; (stuff) all over the place; (lit.) no space even for one's feet

1

to be in disorder; to lie scattered around

4

keeping things tidy and in order

1

effect; efficacy; virtue; benefit

1

comic books; comics; comic; comical

1

jealousy

1

to yearn for; to pine; to be deeply in love with

1

doubt; misgivings; distrust; suspicion

3

hammer

6

to beat vigorously; to rain strikes upon someone; to tan someone's hide; to mercilessly pummel; to beat the daylights out of

3

to push back

1

mean; contemptible; despicable; dirty; foul; cowardly

2

orderly; regular; systematic; well-organized; well-organised; trim

1

to show off; to flaunt

2

race

2

approval; endorsement

3

seventy; 70

2

antiquity; the previous era

3

oil stain; grease stain

2

irritating; annoying; tedious (work, person, etc.); boring; depressing; dark (e.g. story)

1

noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

1

ignoring; looking the other way; passing through; going through; ball hit through net (in tennis)

1

seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be

2

value to society; raison d'être; existence value

1

apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize

1

to yield; to give in; to bend (knee, etc.); to subdue; to overpower; (arch.) to feel down

1

white flag; truce flag; surrender flag

2

deuteragonist; secondary or supporting actor in a noh or kyogen play (possibly multiple actors)

1

to hang; to suspend; to hang oneself; to hoist an opponent off of his feet by his loincloth; to turn upwards (as if being pulled); to be slanted (of eyes)

4

type of soft Japanese confectionery made with rice flour (somewhat similar to Turkish delight)

4

blending of Japanese and Western styles

1

mixing; blending; adding; adulteration

1

to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)

3

scenery; scene; landscape

3

townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

1

Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western

1

agglutination; adhesion; fusion; combination; blending; uniting

1

to fly into a rage; to lose one's temper; to flare up; to break out

2