jpdb beta

ego; self; ego

1

protection; defense; providence; amulet; charm

1

to attack; to destroy; to defeat; to conquer; to avenge

1

shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext; excuse; grounds (for)

1

speaker

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to groan; to moan; to roar; to howl; to hum (engine, wind, etc.); to buzz; to ooh and aah (in admiration)

5

government office; public office

2

urgency; emergency

5

sunlight

2

lack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation

2

megaphone; bullhorn; loudhailer

1

to frown (on); to be grim-faced; to look sullen

1

bureaucratic jargon; officialese; gobbledygook

1

to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by

3

abnormal weather

1

townsman; townswoman; resident of a town; townspeople; townsfolk

2

everyone

1

to go out; to go around; to walk about; to roam

8

morning; a.m.

1

measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy

4

meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention

1

neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity

2

coming; going

1

announcement (esp. over public-address system); official announcement; formal information release

2

panic

7

convenience store

6

to spread; to be propagated

1

food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations; food supply

1

insurrection; riot; uprising; rebellion; revolt

2

destruction; demolition; smashing apart; uchikowashi riots (Edo period); destructive urban riots protesting the high price of rice

1

to crack jokes

3

to get in touch with

1

gloomy; dismal; miserable; spirit of yin

2

chill; shakes; ague

9

generally; on the whole; general; rough; outline; main points

1

acquaintance

1

supply; provision; raising; procurement

1

heigh-ho; heave-ho; la-la

1

something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts

2

temple; monk

6

information session; briefing; explanatory meeting

1

walking around at night

1

to have guts; to be plucky; to have nerves of steel

1

un-; non-

3

difference (of opinion); strange; odd; different

3

the four seasons

1

unique; distinctive; novel; different color (colour)

1

("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra); ten thusnesses (in Tendai)

1

bones left after cremation (esp. those of a Buddha or Boddhisatva); grain of rice; cooked rice

1

child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing ...)

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