jpdb beta

boys' high school

2

life; living; I; me; student

2

cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a building)

1

takoyaki; octopus dumplings

9

to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on

2

home area; home town; local

1

rather than; more ... than ...

5

murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post

7

to hear; to catch (the sound of something); to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to get used to hearing

2

slipping out (a chuckle, giggle); unintentionally (letting out a quiet laugh)

4

entirely; completely; cleanly; snugly

1

... is the reason; ... is my excuse

1

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

1

hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little

1

to be oversized (overloud, etc.)

1

real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally

3

vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy

1

please; if you would; somehow or other; one way or another; whether (or not); if

4

to start to say; to attempt to say; to be about to say; to speak to; to address

1

to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue

1

to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently

1

patient; persevering

1

slight; minor; trifling; considerable; proper; decent

1

public square; square; plaza; open space; clearing

1

street vendor; stallholder; stallkeeper

2

furoshiki; wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper

1

university student; college student

1

to point at

4

to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)

3

suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange

2

accessory (fashion); jewelry; accessory (audio, car, camera, etc.)

1

saying; maxim; aphorism; proverb

1

to show signs of ...; to have the appearance of ...

1

coloured paper; colored paper

1

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

1

map

1

point (of a story, argument, etc.); key point; point; site; point (in scoring); point (in a loyalty program); points

7

one by one; each; every; at intervals of

1

to write down; to note down; to mention; to describe; to inscribe; to mark

2

fee; charge; fare

1

indication; expression; display; displaying; representation; (copyright) attribution

1

fear of heights; acrophobia

1

seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words

1

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

1

roguish; impish

2

aaah!; oooh!; oh no!; oh boy!

5

shriek; scream

3

cheer; shout of joy

1

to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

3

sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air

3