jpdb beta

welcome (news); inviting; encouraging; tempting; hopeful

1

lake surface

1

laconic; of few words; reticent; quiet

1

time limit

2

guess; guesswork; hunch

1

to get tired of waiting

1

to stamp one's feet

2

fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth

1

groundless fear; thinking too much; making too much of

1

seeing clearly; (gods or Buddha) bearing witness (of)

1

deliberation; (thoughtful) consideration; to consider a matter carefully

2

all over the island; throughout the island; on the island

2

to mow; to reap; to harvest; to eradicate; to root out (e.g. evil); to remove

7

sink (e.g. in a kitchen); cruising (e.g. taxi); strolling (entertainer, musician, etc.); washing area (in a Japanese-style bath); back-washing service (in a public bath); floating (something on water)

1

fear; terror

1

survivor

2

to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged

7

courtyard; quadrangle; middle court

19

good young man; agreeable youth

2

figurative expression; metaphorical expression

1

to be nearing death; to be dying

2

pleasant memory to take to the afterlife; good memory; something that makes one feel one can die in peace

1

congeniality; satisfaction; gratification; critical hit

3

to stab to death

1

windy; windswept; blowy

1

star (actor); prima donna; leading figure

1

to hurry (up); to press; to urge on

3

(not even) an inch; (not even) a little bit; (lit.) one millimeter

1

gurgling down; being sucked into; caving in suddenly

1

to outlive

1

to boil; to be boiling hot; to be on a rolling boil

1

filtration; filtering; percolation

1

gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)

1

to fan (oneself, flames, etc.); to flap (in the wind); to instigate; to stir up; to drive up prices (by buying a large amount of something); to take a photo from a low angle; to tailgate

5

to factor in; to take into account; to include in one's considerations

3

having serious consequences; costing dearly; cannot get away with it; for free; for nothing; easily

3

Fang; Huang

12

reprimand; stern warning

1

performance of one's official duties

6

necessities

1

to look toward; to have one's eyes drawn towards something

2

inspection; audit; judgement; judgment

1

elite; best; pick; cream of the crop

6

to repaint; to paint again; to paint (a different colour); to change completely; to break (a record); to redraw (e.g. the map)

9

mechanism

1

invisible person (in science fiction, etc.)

1

full view; plain sight; completely visible

1

adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp

3

taking a seat; sitting down (in one's seat)

1

strange; odd; queer; peculiar; weird

1