jpdb beta

futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness

2

precise; accurate; appropriate; exactly the right

1

efficiency

1

murder; killing; murderer

1

way of thinking

1

innermost depths of one's heart

1

feelings of guilt

1

mercy; compassion; clemency; Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo

2

empty; vacant; hollow

2

to pour into (liquids); to pump into

1

copy; photocopy; blurb on a book jacket; catch copy

1

a moment

1

after

1

strangeness; abnormality; disorder

2

shock wave

5

reaction; recoil; kick; backlash

1

to flick out; to spring out; to calculate; to work out; to expel (from a group); to drive out

1

breast; chest; pit of the stomach; solar plexus; epigastrium

3

absentmindedness; peace of mind

1

release; emission; ejection

1

black smoke

1

to have one's attention attracted (caught); to be preoccupied with

1

to dry up completely; to become stale

5

to become rusted together; to become rusted shut; to rust; to become (completely) rusty; to become rusty (of a skill or ability); to become less effective

8

gorge; ravine; canyon; glen

3

degeneration; decadence; deterioration; laxness; corruption

10

phenomenon

11

the person in question; the person themselves; said person

1

to cut open; to clear (land); to cut (a path, road, etc.); to carve out (a new career, future, etc.); to open up (a new field)

3

reclamation (e.g. wasteland); cultivation; development; pioneering; opening up (e.g. new market); breaking new ground

2

during the war

1

to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)

2

pre-war days; before the war

4

several hundreds

4

to carry on; to go on with one's life; to keep alive; to stay alive; to survive

2

to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple

3

unattractive; ugly; unstylish; uncool

1

isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on

1

sentence-ending particle expressing doubt

2

to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk

1

in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of

2

to the end; to the last

2

to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)

1

to come to one's senses; to calm down

1

nowhere

2

to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

2

homeworld; home planet; mother planet

1

difference (of opinion); strange; odd; different

1

religion; religious affiliation; belief; religious activity

1

betrayer; traitor; turncoat; informer

1