jpdb beta

stubbornness; obstinacy; disposition; nature; appetite; desire

5

grandchild

3

honor student; honours student; model student; prize pupil

1

true feelings; real intention; one's heart; one's right mind; one's senses; one's conscience

3

to guess; to conjecture; to surmise

2

to make tea

2

bright yellow

1

to rub; to scrub; to scrape

1

yellow; high-pitched (voice); shrill

2

ghost; apparition; goblin; monster; something unusually large

2

to bend; to curve; to turn; to be awry; to be askew

2

presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...

1

clothes (that one is wearing); wearing clothes

1

ancient times; distant past; antiquity

1

craftsman; artisan; tradesman; worker; workman

1

to play a leading role; to play a central part

1

costume; dress; attire; (arch.) interior decoration; (arch.) landscaping; (arch.) furnishing

3

headband

3

armband; arm band; brassard

1

monster; monstrosity; giant; influential figure; monsterlike; over-demanding

1

standing on tiptoes

1

stealthy footsteps

1

stealthy steps; spurt to overtake a leading horse just before the finish line

1

typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model

1

ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan

1

available room (hotel); vacancy; room to let

1

to surprise; to frighten; to create a stir

2

good grief

3

orange (fruit, colour)

4

line

3

fold; crease; pleat; manners; courtesy; responsible behavior (behaviour)

1

to trace (drawing); to follow; to imitate; to copy; to reproduce

1

what color

1

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

9

one's own room

2

(aircraft) hangar; (coat) hanger; hunger

2

to hang down (from); to dangle; to be within one's reach; to dangle (before one's eyes); to be completely reliant on; to be entirely dependent on

2

obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum

2

S size; small size

1

jockey's racing uniform; one's best clothes (esp. for women), normally put aside for important meetings, dates, etc.

2

piercingly

1

just kidding; not!; ersatz; imitation; phony

1

quite clearly; quite distinctly; perfectly; exactly

1

as one wishes; the way one wants; to one's satisfaction

1

to dress up

2

bye-bye; good-bye; see you; saying goodbye; parting

1

miniature light bulb; midget lamp

2

the (four) limbs; arms and legs

1

cool; chilly; feeling nice and cold

2

since when; from when; how long

2