jpdb beta

slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)

1

overall; general; as a whole

2

to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer

2

long-established; old-established; traditional

3

losing posture; falling position from which it is impossible to recover; lame duck; hopeless situation

1

to carry over (an issue, decision, work, etc.); to carry forward; to put off; to postpone; to defer

1

captive; prisoner

1

the king and his feudal lords

3

dwelling; house; residence; living; life

2

height; elevated place

8

to be fickle; to be frivolous; to be flippant; to be flighty; to be giddy; to be restless

2

prosperity; flourishing; thriving

2

the other; the other one

1

amber (colour, color)

2

beak; bill

3

fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking

3

to perceive; to grasp (the situation)

3

to collide; to clash

5

and (also); both ... and; as well as

1

what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels

4

amber

2

ultrahigh temperature; superhigh temperature; extreme heat

1

heated wire; infrared rays; heat rays

2

bitter enemy

1

white light; corona

1

rivalry (between two equally strong sides); struggle for supremacy; competing (with); vying (with); contending (with); being an equal match (for)

1

adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined

1

trunk; torso; plastron (in kendo); touching the plastron (kimari-te in kendo); frame (of a drum, etc.); sound box (of a shamisen, etc.)

2

sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time

3

large saw; framed pit saw

1

means of transportation; transport service

1

thousand years; millennium; (fig.) long time

3

resignation; acceptance; consolation

2

last ray of hope; only hope

1

and (also); both ... and; as well as

2

military strength; military personnel

1

rising rapidly (e.g. prices, popularity); soaring; skyrocketing; going through the roof

2

rapid increase; sharp rise; proliferation; surge; explosion

1

affair; state; verdict; sentence; directions; orders

1

wild enthusiasm; being crazy about

1

supremacism

1

to arrange beforehand to tell the same story; to get the stories straight

1

reshuffling; job rotation

1

Oslo (Norway)

6

deputy head; deputy director; vice chief (of something); executive officer (navy)

1

wearing thick clothes; dressing warmly

1

to hide; to conceal oneself

1

merely for form's sake

1

to throw away; to abandon; to give up; to relinquish; to lay down (one's life)

1

establishment; founding; organization; organisation

1