jpdb beta

to writhe (in pain); to squirm; to wriggle

2

envious; jealous; enviable (position, etc.)

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young woman who uses the usually male first person pronoun "boku"

1

ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice

1

to bend backwards; to bend oneself back; to be taken aback

1

to twine around

1

area; vicinity; side; edge; circumstances

3

what to do

2

courting; wooing; making advances

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anguish; trouble; agony

2

traditional; customary; conventional

1

to desire; to want; to expect (of someone); to hope for; to see; to command (a view of)

1

to swim; to struggle through (a crowd); to make one's way through the world; to get along (in life); to totter; to lose one's balance

3

to cling to; to embrace; to throw one's arms around

4

to go through the proper procedures; to follow the required steps

1

(marriage) proposal

1

formation; establishment; conclusion (e.g. of a deal); reaching (e.g. an agreement); being valid (of a theory, argument, etc.); holding

2

use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement

1

founder; originator; pioneer

3

commencing with; including

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to be born; to come into the world

2

inside; interior; (within) one's mind; one's soul; one's heart

1

beforehand; in advance; ahead of time; previously

1

ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay

1

revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance

1

each; every; all

3

entrance (on the stage); appearance (in a book, film, etc.); appearance (on the scene); arrival (on the market); emergence

1

couple

1

festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy

3

supplement; complement

1

poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem

1

to finish speaking

1

to drop one's shoulders

2

just because; even if; even though

1

patriarch; head of a family

16

the nth ...; divisions of a kabuki performance

1

tragic

1

impulse; urge; impetus

1

self-introduction

2

Mr; master; Ms; miss; (arch.) sir; (arch.) madam

8

father; dad; husband; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he

2

miko; shrine maiden; young girl or woman (trad. an unmarried virgin) who assists priests at shrines; medium; sorceress; shamaness

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festival; feast; carnival; matsuri

1

eye-witness; witness

1

to forget something ever existed; to pretend something didn't happen; to put something behind one; to forgive (something)

1

to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice

1

rule; regulation; settlement; conclusion; habit; custom

1

to happen to pass by

1

sigh

1

to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)

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