jpdb beta

specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit

10

a piece; a scrap; a fragment; iota; modicum; trace

1

comedy; funny show

1

around there; near there; or thereabouts; or so; such a matter; such a thing

1

living thing; living creature; animal; life

2

subjectivity; subject (philosophical); ego; one's personal opinion; one's own idea

1

far away; far off; far; long ago; long before

5

American person

2

residence; housing; residential building

1

subprime loan; subprime lending

1

mania; wild excitement

1

American person

1

strangeness; abnormality; disorder

2

to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing

1

fantasy; illusion; vision; dream

5

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

3

failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy

3

exposure; disclosure

1

to go against; to fight against; to oppose; to resist; to deny

1

can do nothing but (do); cannot help (doing) something

2

ignition; detonation; triggering; explosion

1

detonator; percussion cap

1

defeat; lost battle; losing a war

3

to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned

4

to fight to the bitter end

1

to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)

1

attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession

1

to burn out

1

should time and circumstances permit

3

daydream; waking dream

2

to struggle in the water; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe; to (nearly) drown; to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted

1

joining a group

1

scorn; disdain; contempt

2

to pour on

4

lacking fixed principles; inconsistent; fickle

1

optimism

1

to put one's strength into

3

one's personal opinion or views

1

support; stay; prop

1

evidence; proof

3

truth is stranger than fiction

1

to be full of (e.g. adventure, youth, energy); to be overflowing with

3

cross-examination; retort; asking in return

2

condition; figure; appearance; voice

2

if; in case; supposing

1

to be suspicious of (someone's motives); to suspect (that)

1

to the core; to the bone; (lit.) to the marrow

1

basis; foundation; grounds; authority

2

Empire of Japan (Japan's official name under the Meiji Constitution)

1

to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)

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