jpdb beta

travelling incognito (of a person of high rank); special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito

1

secret meeting; clandestine meeting

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to use tact; to exercise discretion; to be tactful; to be thoughtful; to have the sense (to do); to take a hint

2

severe (illness, disability, etc.); serious

1

kitchen

4

state ceremony; laborious; troublesome; irksome

1

monotonous

2

living corpse

1

three days and three nights

1

in the midst of the enemy

1

babysitting; babysitter; nanny; taking care of; looking after; accompanying

2

to go first; to take the lead; to lead the way

1

to get encouraged; to become heightened in spirits; to recover one's strength

1

every month; trite; commonplace; conventional

1

insensitive; inconsiderate; callous; thick-skinned

1

unnatural; artificial; affected; strained

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sadness; sorrow; grief

2

to enlist as a supporter; to win over to one's side; to gain as one's ally

2

young girl; lass; adolescent female

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to give up on; to turn one's back on; to abandon; to forsake; to desert; to leave

3

to have one's breath taken away; to gasp (in surprise, wonder, etc.); to have one's breath catch in one's throat; to gulp

1

with intense concentration; eagerly; intently; devouringly

1

Pope

36

crown; diadem; bottle cap

2

climax

1

(one's) age

1

I; you

10

to go through formalities

2

already; now; no longer; not any more

1

boorish; unsophisticated; unrefined; uncouth; tasteless; insensitive

2

collapse; downfall

4

leader (of an alliance); leading power

4

in good health; alive and well; going strong

2

to pledge allegiance; to swear an oath of allegiance; to take an oath of allegiance

2

wound (suffered in a fight)

4

to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)

1

peerless; matchless; unparalleled; unrivalled; unequalled; incomparable

1

peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled

3

under the command (of); under the banner (of); influenced (by)

5

outbreak (e.g. of war); outburst; sudden occurrence

1

comparison

2

every ...; every other ...; at intervals of ...; with ... in between; ... apart

1

-esque; -like; -ish

1

high-ranking officials; ministers; ladies and gentlemen; everyone

1

gasping

1

assistance; support; subsidy; supplement; spotting (in weight training)

1

to become exaggerated (of rumours, etc.); to become embellished

1

3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma

1

dawn; daybreak

2

rooftop

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