jpdb beta

totemism

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ethnic religion

1

(major) world religion (i.e. Christianity, Buddhism, Islam)

1

religious studies; study of religion

1

to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)

1

common; commonplace; pulp paper; granulated sugar

1

distinctive; characteristic

2

Japanese society

1

profile

1

to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)

1

to take in; to gather in; to adopt (e.g. an idea); to accept (e.g. advice); to harvest; to reap

1

lately; recently; nowadays; terribly; awfully; extremely

1

pleasure; delight

1

nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing

1

complete financial statement; summing up; concluding

1

to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by

3

Hiroto

2

to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair

1

in so doing; when you do so; in this regard; on this occasion; some time during that period

1

conquest; subjugation; overcoming (a difficulty); conquering (e.g. a mountain); mastery (of a skill)

1

soon; shortly; before long

1

Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral

1

stage

1

enlightenment; development; edification; public awareness; illumination; education

2

thick amazake; thick sweet sake

1

Sekisuke

1

editorial committee member; editorial board member; senior staff writer (of a newspaper)

2

progress; pace; carriage; step; stage

1

group (usu. of people)

1

every quarter; all sides

1

young and energetic; up-and-coming; new and excellent; newly produced; up-and-comer

1

considerably; not a little; in no small numbers

2

staff; staff member; stuffing (in Western cuisine); filling; stuff; materials

1

foreword; preface; introduction

1

small number; few; minority

2

matter; item; facts

2

encompassing; covering (exhaustively); including (all of); comprising; comprehending

1

structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance

1

sixty; 60

2

one's native language; Japanese

1

index (in a book)

1

looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); search (e.g. on the Internet); retrieval (of information); reference

2

dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation

4

han; fan; unit that doubles the score of a hand

2

address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; ci (Chinese literary form); ancillary word

1

-off (price reduction); discount; -coated; -plated

1

logical connection; chain of reasoning; coherence; blood vessel

1

linguistics

2

archaeology; archeology

2

geography

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