jpdb beta

meaning; point (e.g. of a statement); gist; goal; intent; object

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Japanese (language)

5

to adhere to formalities

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elegant; refined; polished; high-quality goods; first-class article

2

collateral family; subsidiary line; affiliate; coset

1

person; member

3

circuitous; roundabout; indirect

1

magic bullet; magic bullets

14

assassin; to assassinate

1

to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject

1

to give; to offer; to lift up; to hold up; to raise

1

money-making; commercialized; commercialised

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more than expected

3

to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)

5

to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance); to overlook; to omit; to deviate

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secret art; the mysteries

5

(giving) instruction; initiation

5

far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)

1

Japanese person; Japanese people

1

to live; to get along; to spend (time)

2

to be taught; to learn; to take lessons in

3

handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission

1

sudden rise to power; sudden rise in prosperity

1

to study; to complete (a course); to order (one's life); to repair (a fault one has committed)

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corner; section; one horn; narwhal (Monodon monoceros)

2

to occupy; to hold; to account for; to make up; to take up

5

trump card; ace up one's sleeve; secret weapon

2

arrangement (music, objects, etc.); organization; adaptation

1

to know (a person); to think

1

cross-examination; retort; asking in return

1

guess; conjecture

6

one's heart; one's feelings; one's inner thoughts; one's mind

1

to resist; to defy

1

self control; self restraint

1

Mrs

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a particular; a certain; that kind of; such a

1

one act (play, etc.); scene; event

1

almost; roughly; approximately

3

grasping; seizing; holding; commanding; having control over

1

interior; inside; internal

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outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world

3

process

2

event; phenomenon; matter

1

change; alteration; modification

2

family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period

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large

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that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so

3

to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose

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right on the heels of yesterday, then today ...; soon after something, and yet now ...

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lunch; noon; midday; daytime; waking up; getting up

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