jpdb beta

virtue; charm; merit; good point

1

wrong impression; subjective impression; assumption; prejudice

3

overserious; deeply sincere; very earnest

1

sudden; unexpected; unpredictable; unforeseen

2

hey!; excuse me!; wait a moment

1

heir; successor; family estate; family fortune; headship of a family

1

to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with

1

three sons; third son

1

bonze; monk; monk's dwelling; boy; son; I; me

1

dysfunction; malfunction; insufficiency

1

betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)

2

to look at the long term

2

severe punishment; rigorous measures

1

wait-and-see (situation, stance, etc.); waiting to see (how things play out); watching developments (before acting); probe; probing move

2

to aggravate; to complicate; to make worse

6

mistake; error; blunder

4

the second time

7

spiritual aspect; mental aspect; emotional aspect

1

possessed of a strong sense of duty

2

(an actor) conveying qualities of a character without gestures or speech; implied acting; implicitly asserting one's will (e.g. by sheer force of personality); performance using one's stomach (e.g. by drawing a face on it and animating it using one's abdominal muscles); acrobatics performed on a laid-out person's belly

1

to take into account; to bear in mind; to consider; to learn from; to take as a lesson

2

to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood

5

circumstances

1

not a word to anyone; keep it secret; mum's the word

2

last drink (of sake); last glass; last cup

2

where; what place; how much (long, far); what extent

2

to shut one's eyes; to close one's eyes; to turn a blind eye (to); to close one's eyes (to); to die

2

versus; against; to (e.g. score of 4 to 2, ratio of 3 to 1, vote of 320 to 180); toward ...; to ...; equal footing

3

interception (email); wiretap; bug

7

seeing through; fluoroscopy; roentgenoscopy; clairvoyance; seeing through (objects)

2

long talk

1

dispel (esp. magic or potion used to return one's character to normal status in an RPG, etc.)

1

harpy

1

siren

1

sound wave; acoustic wave

1

power balance; balance of power

1

to be overturned; to be reversed; to turn over; to fall down; to tumble down; to topple over

1

other; another; over; more than; I; me

11

chafing; grinding (e.g. teeth); binding tightly; pulling tight (e.g. a bow); rotating quickly; hurting sharply

1

way of saying (something); way of putting it; wording; phrasing; language; expression

2

manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act, usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit

1

to become ...-ish; to appear like ...; to have a touch of ...; to become stained with ...; to become steeped with ...; to become smeared with ...

2

order; turn

1

fundamental knowledge; the basics

1

to begin to speak

2

entrusting (everything to); leaving (a matter) entirely with

3

to state one's opinion

3

youngest child

2

second daughter

1

male lineage

3