jpdb beta

each; respectively

1

(social) standing; status; identity; birth; one's circumstances; one's means

1

to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even

3

to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)

1

brush cleaner; brush cleaning; brush washing; writing brush washer

1

to crowd (a house); to throng to (a door)

1

Heike family; Taira family

3

load; baggage; cargo; burden; responsibility

2

post office

1

thank you; thanks

1

irritating; aggravating; upsetting

1

to make even; to make smooth; to make level; to average

2

residence

1

to become stiff (of muscles); to get absorbed in; to develop a passion for; to be elaborate; to be intricate

1

to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege

1

after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)

1

Versailles (France)

1

stamp (postage); merchandise certificate

1

to meet; to meet up; to rendezvous; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together

2

twenty-first day of the month; twenty-one days

1

gambling with hanafuda

3

expectation; anticipation; hope; promising; rising; up-and-coming

2

poor; meagre; meager; feeble; scanty; shabby

1

neurasthenia; nervous breakdown; concentration (card game involving turning over face-down cards to find identical pairs)

2

evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights

1

downheartedly; dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently

1

uncertainty; insecurity; inconstancy; indefinite; undecided

1

fine weather; fair weather

3

possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; somehow or other; with difficulty; barely

1

Meudon (France); Moudon (Switzerland)

3

hill; height; knoll; bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game

1

atmosphere

1

low-priced; cheap; inexpensive; shallow (e.g. sympathy); superficial; cheap (e.g. government)

1

astronomical observatory

1

view; outlook; prospect

1

trivial; not amounting to much

1

to have a meal; to eat; to make a living; to earn one's bread

1

should (be); bound (to be); nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out

1

Francine

2

bathing; to bathe; to take a bath; to enter a bath

3

to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout

1

Marx; Marks; Marcks; Marcus; Markus

1

Robinson; Eric

1

foreword; preface

1

something heard for the first time; hearing something for the first time

1

harakiri; seppuku; ritual suicide by disembowelment

1

stove

2

charcoal briquette

2

boule (round loaf of white bread); Boer

1

to burn; to kindle; to heat (a bath); to light (a stove); to use (a camera flash)

2