jpdb beta

vague recollection; faint memory

1

elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student

2

considerably; fairly; quite

3

major incident; major happening; big scandal

1

grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)

1

although at this late hour; now, although it is too late; afresh; anew; again

2

worldwide; global; international; world-famous; world-class

1

important person; strategic person; key figure

1

real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally

1

survival; survivor; relic

3

accurate; correct; precise; exact

2

remnants; survivors; refugees; pocket (of resistance)

7

to employ; to hire; to charter

5

achievements; actual results; accomplishments; past results; track record

1

consideration; guess; conjecture; judgment; judgement

2

just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street

2

infiltration; sneaking in; going undercover

1

administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like

2

discriminatory; discriminative

1

predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy

3

advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system); (arch.) socialist; (arch.) communist

1

tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); disposal (e.g. weaponry); annulment; cancellation; reversal (of an original ruling)

2

right of control; supremacy; sovereignty

1

one eye; one of one's eyes

1

to close (one's eyes); to shut

1

meaning; significance

1

to impress (someone)

1

self-satisfaction; (self-)complacency; smugness

1

Japan

3

something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)

1

rough; careless; slovenly; slipshod; rude; impolite

2

to be enlivened; to be exhilarated

1

ultimate goal

1

to be the case that

2

meaningful; suggestive; telling; significant; pregnant (pause etc.)

2

suppressed laugh; smile; giggle; chuckle

1

to glare at; to scowl at

1

to do

3

to turn toward; to look (up, down, etc.); to face (e.g. east) (of a building, window, etc.); to look out on; to point (of an arrow, compass needle, etc.); to be suited to

3

street; quarter; district; area

1

idly; lazily; aimlessly; evasively; elusively; vaguely

1

cross-examination; close questioning; demanding an explanation

1

to dodge (e.g. a question); to evade; to sidestep; to give (someone) the slip

2

precise; exact; detailed; accurate; minute; close

2

will; volition; intention; intent; determination

1

for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion

1

if; in case; supposing

7

supposing; even if; granting that; temporarily; provisionally; for the time being

2

fighting back; returning fire; counter-attack; responding to an attack; accepting a challenge

1

right of self defense; right of self defence

2