jpdb beta

standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against

1

as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); still; all the same; even ... (e.g. "even a genius")

6

visit for no reason; go on fool's errand

2

harvest; crop; ingathering; fruits (of one's labors); gain; result

2

leading question

1

insufficient; inadequate; imperfect

1

to walk about; to walk around; to conduct oneself; to turn up; to brawl (in a play, etc.)

2

trial; judgement; judgment

1

technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft

3

shellfish; seashell; shell

1

toilet; lavatory; water closet; restroom; bathroom

2

register of names; list of names; roll; register; roster

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to be imaginable; to be conceivable

1

intimate; close

4

trouble; quarrel; difficulties; complication; tangle

1

nonsense; no meaning; meaningless

2

policy; course; plan (of action); magnetic needle

4

tactician; schemer; intriguer; resourceful person

1

to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call

3

suspension; stoppage; discontinuance; interruption

1

dimension; perspective; point of reference; level (of something)

1

aim

1

surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)

6

in preparation (for); in case (of); in the lead-up (to)

1

serious wound; hard blow

1

to end in vain; to be wasted effort

1

relationship; connection; involvement; entanglement; implication (e.g. in a crime)

2

quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to

5

outsider; someone outside of a group

5

impossible to do (although wants to)

7

look!; there!; here!; that is

3

five o'clock

7

to read too much into things; to get wrong ideas by letting one's imagination run wild; to have a groundless suspicion

4

useless; deadhead

1

to be branded a ...; to be labelled a ...

1

foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese

3

foreign settlement; concession; reservation (e.g. American Indian)

1

parcel; package

1

matter of time; question of time

3

to delay; to postpone; to put off; to slow down; to hold up; to retard

1

six o'clock; six periods of a day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening, midnight, late night)

8

to hide; to conceal oneself

1

linen

1

backdoor; rear entrance; rear exit; unauthorized; illicit; illegal

19

(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front

5

to pray; to wish

3

part of a building where water is circulated (kitchen, bathroom, etc.); wet area

1

clothes; clothing; garments

2

spider

5

to become blunt; to grow dull; to become less capable; to weaken; to falter

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