jpdb beta

fumbling; groping

1

national budget

1

food; foodstuff; prey; victim

1

scientist

3

bourgeois

1

playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)

2

outward appearance; ostensible; public; official

2

military affairs

2

project

2

in truth; in actuality; at heart; the truth; the real story

1

private; personal

1

emotional; sentimental

2

subjective

1

motive; incentive; motif

1

or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean

2

to long for; to yearn after; to admire; to be attracted by

1

terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

1

cheap

1

desire; wish; aspiration

2

to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass

2

to pick; to pluck; to snip; to cut; to nip

1

feel (i.e. tactile sensation); touch; feeling; sensation; texture (e.g. food, cloth)

2

at that time; in those days

6

practical use; utility

2

stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs

3

tax; duty

1

to dedicate; to make an offering; to supply; to store; to finish; to bring to a close; to restore (something to its place)

1

setting a bad example to others

1

bluff

2

to force someone to clamp with their teeth; to force into someone's mouth (e.g. a gag); to wedge into a space; to inflict (a blow); to deal (a hit); to pull (a joke)

1

occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom

2

television; TV; TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast

4

unsettled; pending; unresolved

1

event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble

2

to challenge to (a fight, game, etc.); to throw down the gauntlet; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to attempt; to pressure (someone) for sex; to make advances to

1

elite

1

police investigator; investigator

1

at least

3

witnessing; observing; sighting

4

testimony; (verbal) evidence

2

you; dear; honey

4

Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times

1

alchemy; way of making money; moneymaker; money-spinner

4

fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them

2

royalty and titled nobility

1

unidentified flying object; UFO

1

earthworm

1

flesh; meat; flesh (of a fruit); pulp; the physical body (as opposed to the spirit); flesh; thickness

1

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

1

Russia

4