jpdb beta

rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk

5

hey!; wait a minute!; whoa!; boohoo; waaaa

2

jest; joke; funny story

1

moderately; in moderation

1

buttocks; behind; undersurface; bottom; last place; end

1

junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school

3

English (language)

1

teacher (classroom)

7

nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck

3

establishing; proving; ascertaining; identifying; confirming

4

senior high school student

1

stationery

3

store; shop; restaurant

5

cram school; private tutoring school; juku

8

lecturer

3

Okabe

7

week

3

present point (i.e. in history); at the present time

1

going out; outing; leaving (one's home, office, etc.)

3

limit; restriction

2

to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood

1

world; society; people; the public

1

to wash again; to reconsider

4

clue; lead; key; handhold; hold

4

mother

14

that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you

5

to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)

1

to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen

10

to recall; to remember; to recollect

11

question; inquiry; enquiry

1

among these; between these; of these; in here; in this

4

diligently; seriously; perfectly; properly; sufficiently; satisfactorily

4

to see (a doctor, etc.); to consult (someone)

3

child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot

7

to arrest the culprit

1

this one; this way; this method

1

one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission

1

everyone; anyone; no one; nobody

12

memory; ability to remember

1

self-confidence; confidence (in oneself)

1

workmanship; craftsmanship; grades; results; quality (e.g. of a crop); dealings

1

lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many

1

to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)

6

in the background; not standing out

1

Mayumi

1

to hold in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to have (problems, debts, etc.); to take on (a responsibility); to employ; to have (on one's staff)

4

marriage

3

last year

5

to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved

5

strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance

2