jpdb beta

preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; being stranded; grounding

12

unskilled; awkward; bad; clumsy; poor

1

sphere of influence

3

middle

12

enemy attack; enemy raid

1

advance; charge

11

route; road; distance travelled in a day; one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s)

4

arrowhead; target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack); the very moment (when); the point (of doing)

1

first-aid kit

3

just managing; with great difficulty

1

to turn one's back on; to be uninterested in

2

curved; forming the shape of an arch

1

not a little; not a few; considerable

1

front part; frontage; facade; initial pledge (e.g. election); opening slogan

3

explosive (material)

6

to fall into (someone's) hands; to fall under someone's control; to become someone's property (e.g. of an object)

3

recovery; rescue; recapture

4

to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on

1

advantage or disadvantage

6

to be beyond one's capacities; to be beyond one's powers; to be beyond one's control; to be unmanageable

1

to bear fruit

1

PET bottle (clear plastic beverage bottle)

1

green tea; Japanese tea

2

cola (carbonated soft drink); kola tree (Cola acuminata, etc.); cola tree

1

Red Bull (energy drink)

1

to imitate; to copy; to mock; to trace; to forge

1

health; healthy; sound; fit

1

now advancing and now retreating; ebb and flow; seesawing; taking alternately favorable and unfavorable turns

3

bottom of one's heart

3

to defeat

1

walking briskly; determinedly

1

false accusation; pretext; picking a quarrel; committing oneself

1

to find fault (with); to cavil (at); to carp (about); to throw a wet blanket (on); to throw cold water (on); to jinx

1

payment of a sum twice the original; giving back a gift double the value of the one received; repaying twofold; inflicting a revenge twice as hurtful (painful, costly, etc.) as the original misdeed

1

close contest; close match; close game; close combat

1

to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)

1

gods

79

dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia

78

dripping with sweat; bathed in perspiration

1

just how; how (dare you)

2

brazenly; unabashedly

1

tolerance; open-mindedness; forbearance; generosity; magnanimity

1

all eyes; public attention

1

point worthy of note; highlight; high point; good prospects for the future; promise

2

cornerstone; main point; requirement; need; necessary; required

1

disposal; abandonment; scrapping; annulment; cancellation; abrogation

2

ridge (of roof); back of a sword; counter for buildings, apartments, etc.

2

ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid

1

journey; trip; travels; during the journey; on the way; while travelling

4

speed per second; velocity per second; instant; moment; a few seconds

1