jpdb beta

cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration

1

self-development; self-enlightenment

1

book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter

1

to write a novel

1

going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease

1

control; management (e.g. of a business)

2

does not seem; unlikely; improbable

5

walk-in closet

4

tightly; snugly

1

keeping things tidy and in order

2

crevice; crack; spare moment; interval; chink (in one's armor, armour); unpreparedness

11

to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)

1

to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs; to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject)

4

forgetting; lapse of memory

1

exhibition; display; putting on show

1

and (also); both ... and; as well as

1

lightly; gaping wide; suddenly; unexpectedly

1

to open (e.g. doors); to open (e.g. business, etc.); to be empty; to be vacant; to be available; to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.); to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.)

2

guess; conjecture; surmise

1

filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)

1

to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends

1

Conan

1

Doyle

1

shelf; ledge; rack; trellis

1

brilliant red; scarlet

1

study; research; investigation

1

greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; revenge

2

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892 collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle)

1

complete set (of volumes); every volume; whole volume; whole film; whole reel

1

to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble

2

unreliable; undependable; helpless; forlorn; worried; uneasy

3

aim; object; expectations; prospects; something that can be relied upon; snack served with alcoholic drink; pad

2

writing; book

3

first; new

1

repetition; repeat; reiteration; repeatedly

1

rereading; reading again; reading a single kanji twice (with different pronunciations) in kanbun

1

author; writer; novelist; artist

4

to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up

2

to flash (e.g. lightning); to flicker; to flutter (e.g. flag); to wave; to flash into one's mind (e.g. an idea); to come to one suddenly

1

probability; likelihood

1

point of an argument; drift of an argument

1

confident; assured; self-assured; bullish (e.g. market)

2

corner; bend; segment (within a radio or TV program); session; area; department

2

to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...

5

anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest

3

anxiety; uneasiness; worry; apprehension; fear; insecurity

3

this much; this amount

2

plain; frank; candid; open; direct; straightforward

2

axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem

2

as planned

1