jpdb beta

cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with (skillfully); handling (well); managing

30

claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention

5

sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)

3

to smile

5

calm; quiet; gentle; moderate; reasonable; amicable

3

existence or nonexistence; presence or absence; consent or refusal; yes or no

1

black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty

1

smile

1

immorality; injustice; adultery; illicit relationship; murdering one's teacher or a government official (one of the eight unpardonable crimes)

1

scruff of the neck

1

silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction

3

kitten; small cat

4

hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker

1

dangling; aimlessly; casually; unexpectedly

1

to drag; to trail; to force (someone) along; to drag (along); to prolong; to drag out

1

woman; female; female lover; girlfriend; mistress

7

to be able (to); to be possible (to)

4

light (i.e. not heavy); feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily); light (i.e. of foot); effortless; non-serious; minor; slight

8

being deeply moved emotionally; excitement; passion; inspiration; deep emotion; strong impression

2

even

9

to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think

17

thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality

41

nape of the neck

1

death by suffocation; death by choking

1

to release; to let go; to free; to add (pieces of eggplant, potato, etc.) to water, broth, etc.

2

dying; death; dead; useless; damned

2

will not do; do not; does not

3

-ness; indicates assertion; come (on); come now; er; um; indicates scrutiny, critique or mistrust

10

neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing

6

to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)

3

grip (of hand); grip strength

1

old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly

5

employee; worker

1

meddling (in); butting in; interference; poking one's nose into

1

day after tomorrow; wrong (e.g. direction)

1

direction; orientation; bearing; course (e.g. of action)

3

to look at; to gaze at; to look out over; to get a view of; to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch

22

be (that) as it may; having said that

1

to make an enemy (of); to turn (someone) into an enemy; to antagonize

1

continuance; survival; persistence; retention; duration

1

crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch

1

to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender

2

to let pass; to allow through; to transmit (e.g. light, sound, etc.); to conduct (electricity); to stick through (e.g. a hole); to force through (e.g. an opening); to connect (e.g. two places)

1

single (room); room for one; private room (in a restaurant, etc.); private dining room; (toilet) stall

8

open; spacious; extensive

3

Japanese-style room

1

ebony

1

window

5

pond

1

existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have

3