jpdb beta

brothers and sisters; siblings

2

cousin (male)

1

direct descent; direct line

2

groundless fear; thinking too much; making too much of

2

mist; haze

1

to probe; to search; to sound out; to investigate

1

broad-mindedness

1

for generations; from generation to generation; generation after generation; through the ages

2

to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune

1

troublesome; annoying; complicated

2

to hang one's head; to droop one's head

1

double take (esp. out of surprise)

1

(the condition of) one's health

1

bed of nails; bed of thorns; bed of needles

2

grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen

1

to grow older (than expected); to advance in age

1

mix-up; mistake; misunderstanding

1

nervous

1

to walk away; to saunter off

1

uncertain; indefinite

1

sleep

1

luckily; happily

1

several hours; a few hours

2

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

1

tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon dog; sly dog; sly old fox; sly fox

1

friend's house; home of a friend

1

abstemious; austere

1

quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive

1

to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

1

to change one's way of thinking; to switch the direction of one's thoughts; to put one's focus on a new subject; to adopt a new frame of mind

1

roundabout; indirect; circuitous; ignorant (of the world)

2

(random) guess; guesswork; shot in the dark; conjecture

1

ancestral; hereditary; handed down from generation to generation; for generations; from generation to generation

1

to guess right

2

impressions; thoughts; feelings; opinions

1

oral instruction; passing information by word-of-mouth; oral tradition

1

hidden meaning; symbolism; moral (of a story); allegorical meaning

1

to bewitch; to confuse; to enchant; to delude

2

as soon as possible

1

outline; summary; overview; synopsis; abstract; abridgment

1

to pick out; to single out; to select; to extract; to draw out; to pull out

1

to write (e.g. a letter); to draw up (a document); to take down (e.g. notes); to have (lunch, dinner, etc.); to eat

1

to hold the key (to)

1

to keep secret; to conceal

1

quick-wittedness; tact

2

fancy; fancy; imagination; whim

1

scribbling; scrawl; hasty writing

1

ancient China

1

dwelling; house; residence; address

1

(act of) building (temple, monument, etc.); erection

2