jpdb beta

continent; continental Asia (esp. mainland China); continental Europe

1

peace; security; tranquility; tranquillity

1

protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)

1

sudden; abrupt; unexpected; unforeseen

1

blow; hit; stroke

1

failure; mistake; blunder

1

cooperative; helpful

1

circumstances; condition; to arrange; to manage; to lend money; to raise money

1

ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery

1

overwhelming

1

military force; military strength

1

to boast of; to be proud of; to take pride in

1

aggression; invasion; raid

1

prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante

1

obstruction; check; hindrance; prevention; impediment; interdiction

1

pride

2

to take measures (in face of events being anticipated); to come to an agreement (in bargaining, etc.); to strike a bargain; to clap one's hands together

1

to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than

2

to become; to amount to

1

claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention

1

approval; endorsement

1

to say enough (as much as required); to say plenty; to say well; to say cleverly; to say often; to say frequently

1

impediment; burden; encumbrance; hindrance; drag

1

to speak badly (of); to speak ill (of); to bad-mouth

1

fatal; deadly; mortal

1

to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside

1

release; liberation; acquittal

1

place; situation; position; location

1

to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)

1

incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness

1

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

1

portion for two people

1

monster

1

hostility; animosity; enmity

1

short way; shortcut

1

for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)

1

great hurry; great haste; rush

1

pearl; Perl; purl (knitting stitch)

4

light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence

2

to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one

1

brightness; brilliance; brilliancy; radiance; glitter

1

mathematical

1

spherical surface

1

totem

1

image; figure; figure; form; image

1

undeserved good luck; luck of the devil; dumb luck; bad luck

2

to call in; to invite; to bring in

1

crab

3

treasure; treasured item; prized possession

1

recovery; undoing; recall

1