jpdb beta

food; foodstuff; prey; victim

1

to omit; to leave out; to overtake; to pass; to say; to speak

1

to be deep in talk

2

treacherous; dangerous; untrustworthy; sneaky; cunning

3

coworker; co-worker; colleague; associate

2

depravity; corruption; degradation

1

kingdom; monarchy

1

to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up

3

harmonious; peaceful; happy; amicable; smooth; free from trouble

1

retirement from office

2

during one's tenure

1

to make sacrifices for; to pay dearly for

2

concealment; suppression; hiding

1

Japanese person; Japanese people

12

mixed race; mixed parentage

1

foster parents

1

China

2

clap (sound of wooden clappers); chop vigorously; slight movement (e.g. poke, small bird alighting); the end; originally end of a play, marked by clap of clappers; dot (esp. typographical)

1

to become public; to become known; to come out in the open; to be formal; to be official

1

pluralizing suffix

1

god-like existence; person far higher (in hierarchy, etc.) than oneself

1

lonely; lonesome; dreary; (arch.) loneliness; (arch.) desolation

1

shade; shadow; behind (something); other side; background; behind the scenes

5

bitter tears; (lit.) tears of blood

2

to run into; to rush into; to (run and) seek refuge in; to take shelter in

1

to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)

5

to lose sight of (one's companions); to stray from; to miss (one's chance to ...)

1

affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship

2

China; Chinese food

10

manor; villa

1

Nanjing; Nanking; pumpkin; squash; Chinese; Southeast Asian

1

cemetery; graveyard

2

mum; mom; mummy; the missus

5

gravesite; tomb

7

handsome man; man's looks; good looks; manliness

1

to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up

3

every one (of them); (one and) all; without exception; to a man; to the last person

1

expressing one's mind; speaking out

1

to accomplish; to fulfill; to carry out

3

to boil; to be boiling hot; to be on a rolling boil

1

anger; rage; resentment; indignation; exasperation

4

zest for living; energy to live

1

(early) childhood

3

tenacity; indomitableness; dauntlessness; inflexibility

1

ground; earth; the solid earth; the (vast) land

3

to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear

5

craving; longing; thirsting

2

to bud; to sprout

1

spurious article; forgery; counterfeit; imitation; sham

2

halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked

1