jpdb beta

prawn; shrimp; lobster; crayfish

1

deep (colour); dark; strong (flavour, smell, etc.); thick (consistency); dense; strong (possibility, etc.)

2

soft and flaky (pie, potatoes, squash, etc.); fluffy; crumbly; being pleased with oneself; beaming happily; chuckling to oneself

1

tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing

1

edible wild plants

2

supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super

1

bitterness; bitter taste

1

elegant; refined; polished; high-quality goods; first-class article

1

to soak (in); to steep; to dip; to dunk

1

juice; sap; soup; broth; (dipping) sauce

3

dashi (Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp)

1

skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis); oceanic bonito; victorfish

1

soy sauce; shoyu

1

light (flavor); lightly-seasoned; thin (porcelain, paper, etc.); thinly made; thin soy sauce; light soy sauce

1

sake; Japanese rice wine

1

mirin; type of sweet rice wine used in cooking

1

particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty

2

to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble

3

seasoning; flavour; flavor

1

leaving (it) to others

1

decision; determination; resolution

3

to refuse; to reject; to deny

1

front-facing; forward-looking; positive; constructive

1

cutting in two with a single stroke; taking decisive action; dealing with decisively; cutting the (Gordian) knot

1

useless member of society; hopeless case; failure

3

to try and do something; to attempt to do something

1

without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory

2

to consist of; to be made up of; to be concluded (e.g. of an agreement); to hold true (e.g. of a theory); to be viable (of a business, lifestyle, etc.); to carry on

1

around there; near there; or thereabouts; or so; such a matter; such a thing

4

to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment

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side

1

to wake up; to awake; to awaken to (instinct, ability, perception, etc.); to become aware of; to come to one's senses

2

to bring up a subject; to touch on a matter

1

to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue

2

before long; even now

3

to burst into tears; to burst out crying; to begin to cry; to be moved to tears

1

many times

2

criterion

1

judgment; judgement; divination; judgement

1

to be at a loss for words

1

practice; training; drill; (an) exercise; workout

3

improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress; communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank

2

concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial

3

lecture

2

gossip

1

a period (of time)

1

almost every day; almost daily

1

stomach ache; abdominal pain

1

interruption; suspension; break

1

frequency (of occurrence)

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