jpdb beta

total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects

1

fall; drop; descent; coming down

1

soft; tender; gentle; mild; informal; light

2

cancer

2

direct hit

2

bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage; bleeding money; red ink; selling below cost

1

bone fracture

1

opposite side; opposition

2

support; stay; prop

3

floor

20

domino toppling

1

with a bang bang (sound of a hammer or gunfire); at a mad pace (spend money, work); with great vigor

1

earthquake

1

to be evident; to be obvious; to understand completely

1

shallow; superficial; thoughtless; short-sighted; foolish; silly

1

disastrous scene; terrible spectacle

4

to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check

5

person

3

home; family; household

1

vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)

1

shameful; disgraceful; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming; improper

1

to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor

1

maybe; could be; might

1

insincere smile; ingratiating smile; polite smile; forced smile

1

pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship

1

stone; jewel; precious stone; flint (in a lighter); stone (in go); stone (in the bladder, kidney etc.); calculus

1

abrupt; sudden; unexpected

2

to be at one's wits' end; to be cornered; (lit.) to be packed to the hilt

1

burying alive

1

burial

1

to cramp up; to tighten; to be insistent; to persist (in one's opinion); to act tough; to bluff; to prop up (e.g. with a post)

1

arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.; otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish)

1

owner; proprietor; possessor (e.g. of talent, beauty, etc.)

2

one's duty; one's part

1

not exceeding; and downward; below (e.g. standard); under (e.g. a level); the below-mentioned; the following

1

remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted

1

one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume

2

to come out (e.g. hair); to fall out; to collapse (e.g. building, floor); to be left out; to be omitted

1

tightly (packed); densely; closely; crammed

1

gross weight

1

tee-hee

1

to push aside; to push one's way through

1

to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)

2

at least; at most; (even) just

2

to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to

3

and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless

2

successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another

1

practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)

1

to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher

4

to jar; to creak; to grate

1