jpdb beta

mediation; agency; agent; mediator; middleman; go-between

1

skillful; adroit; craft; craftsmanship; plot; scheme

13

demonstrative of one's worth; worthy of one's reputation; living up to one's name; bolstering one's reputation; enhancing one's prestige; winning one honour

1

manners; behavior; behaviour

6

no loss or gain; coming out even

1

to pester someone (e.g. to buy something)

1

objection; dissent; protest

11

by sheer strength; by brute force

2

just managing; with great difficulty

2

to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize

8

now that it's come to this; since it's come to this

4

house arrest

1

escape; flight; breakout; fleeing; desertion

2

to visit; to call on; to pay a visit to

5

pipe shaft (in a building); riser shaft

1

to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause); to pin down; to ascertain; (arch.) to stab to death

5

assertiveness; positiveness; initiative; spirit of enterprise

5

(as alike as) two peas in a pod

6

meticulous; careful; discreet; scrupulous; prudent

4

to cancel; to call off

1

and; thereupon; because of that

4

cross fire

1

blameless; above reproach; beyond reproach; faultless; perfect

1

belatedly

2

moisture; damp; richness; warmth; financial leeway; gains

1

bad temper; bad mood

2

overprotective; excessive care; overprotection; overprotectiveness

5

person of firm character; stable person; gutsy person

2

straight (from one place to another); going right onto; on the way; simultaneously; incidentally; directly

1

straw hat

2

to show up; to appear; to turn up

8

to ask (humbly); to request (humbly)

1

station wagon; estate car; minivan; people carrier

5

we; us; I; me; my store (business, etc.)

5

attendant; person who looks after one's needs; caretaker

1

back door

1

large amount of baggage; bulky baggage; cargo

5

rhinoceros beetle (esp. the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus)

4

(nature, etc.) observation diary

1

wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line

1

stand of trees planted to control the movement of sand

4

pine forest

1

background music; BGM

2

favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right

20

to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)

11

brilliant; bright

2

to get used to living in

1

self-hatred; self-abhorrence; self-loathing

5

to be stricken (e.g. with grief); to be battered (e.g. by disasters)

5

to declare impressively

1