jpdb beta

hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking

1

silly; foolish; absurd; childish; easy; trifling

1

novel; (short) story

2

book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter

1

one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume

1

to pick out; to single out; to select; to extract; to draw out; to pull out

1

tag; slip; label; sticker

1

handwriting; handwritten; hand-painted; hand-drawn

1

writing; entry (e.g. to a form); posting (e.g. to a blog)

1

page

3

anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest

1

to stab; to stick; to pierce; to thrust

1

cushion

1

to cover a surface; to spread all over; to blanket; to lay

1

more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time

1

blank space; margin; blank canvas

1

to rip out (and take); to tear out

1

pen

2

ink

2

to write down

1

party to a contract; subscriber; policy owner (insurance)

3

contract; compact; agreement

12

tip of brush

1

distorted; crooked; oval; elliptical shape; round, wooden container for cooked rice; oval coin

1

note (letter) left behind; will

2

party; group; troop; one act; one action; one deed

1

sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement

1

to (keep in) mind; to give heed to; to pay attention to

2

to suffer; to groan; to be worried

1

going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people

1

line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)

1

superscription (on a letter, parcel, etc.); address; overwriting (data, file, etc.)

1

to lock

1

to be found; to be discovered

1

hut; shanty; hovel; house built directly into the ground with no supporting stones

1

even; even if; even though; because of; on the grounds that

2

basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation

1

as is usual with; in common with

1

basement; cellar

1

to fall completely silent; to become still as death

1

appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy

3

to darken; to get dark; to be clouded; to be hidden (behind clouds)

1

pure; clean; purity

1

(doing the) mopping

2

to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively

1

hiss (esp. cat); sizzle; whoosh

1

Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker

1

intimacy; friendship; familiarity

2

to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)

2

to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)

2