jpdb beta

darkness; the dark

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darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy

15

light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence

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engine

2

to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade

6

body (of car); frame

1

blindness; blind person; illiteracy; illiterate person; ignorance; ignoramus

1

to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)

4

to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted

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after; later

4

to follow; to come along with one; to accompany

2

to order; to command; to appoint

2

avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)

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black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty

15

collar; lapel; neckband; nape of the neck; scruff of the neck

4

to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make

7

the West; the Occident; Western countries

3

thief; burglar; robber; theft; burglary; robbery

7

hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker

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to take someone's hand

3

rapidly; vigorously; by leaps and bounds; steadily

2

to drag along; to pull; to force someone along; to prolong; to drag out; to influence strongly

2

gate; branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master; division; phylum; counter for cannons

4

to cover up the sky (e.g. smoke)

1

big tree

1

below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after

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but; however; even though; even if

1

to go past; to pass; to pass by

4

vacant land; unoccupied ground; empty lot

2

to cross (e.g. road); to traverse

2

I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow

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horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside

6

western style-house (esp. those built before WWII)

1

near; close; beside; vicinity; proximity; besides

10

light of a firefly

1

(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely

6

one's way; one's path

2

university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

3

premises; grounds; campus; compound; precincts

2

shh!; sh!; shush!; shoo!; go away!

3

wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do

9

to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)

6

fingers; fingertips; underling; stooge; tool

1

tightly (hold, squeeze, etc.); firmly; forcefully (e.g. push); hard

4

force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort

15

to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud

2

to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal

1

to connect; to join; to join or tie or knot together

1

palm (of one's hand)

3

only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to

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