jpdb beta

condominium (usu. mid or high-rise); apartment building; apartment house; block of flats; apartment; flat

8

tired; frazzled; tiresome; tiring; draining

1

telephone call; telephone (device)

2

hegemony; leadership; initiative

1

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

2

touch; contact

5

to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)

1

through; throughout; through (the good offices of); by way of

1

if it's the case

2

one week

2

so what?; what of it?; and?; why do you ask?

4

reemployment

4

(not) so; (not) particularly; (not) very; (not) that much

1

to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)

2

hush money

3

lottery; lottery ticket

1

more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once

3

to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)

8

warm heart; kindliness

1

even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little

1

money

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to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand); to own; to obtain

3

be; is

1

labor; labour; toil; trouble; pains; work

1

group; (free) radical; counter for installed or mounted objects (e.g. stone lanterns, gravestones, satellites)

1

station (esp. a police station); office (e.g. tax office)

2

severance payment; retirement money (usu. lump-sum); redundancy payment

3

wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)

2

handsome man; actor in a love scene

1

to be in a fit (of anger); to rage

1

to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)

1

(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all

4

article; news story; report; account

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mere; simple; sheer

2

to trip (over); to stumble; to fail; to suffer a setback

1

to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up

1

to survive

1

good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable

2

to stretch larger; to enlarge (photos); to delay (e.g. the end of a meeting)

2

to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress

3

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

1

planned bankruptcy

5

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

3

because

1

to brave a danger; to take a risk

1

to (do) like this

1

at once; immediately; right now

1

to drag down; to pull down; to force out (of power, office, role, etc.)

1

curry (esp. Japanese curry); rice and curry

3

(one's) older brother; lad; sonny

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