jpdb beta

remarkable ability; mastery; brilliant technique; go-getter; resourceful person; wizard

2

professional killer; hit man

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to make matters worse; besides; what's more; in addition; on top of that

2

hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar

2

doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")

2

selfish; egoist; (arch.) self-indulgent; (arch.) wilful; (arch.) willful

1

reading in a monotone; reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese

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being stuck between a rock and a hard place; being in a dilemma; being torn between conflicting demands

1

state; condition; situation; appearance; circumstances

2

flurried; flustered; upset; nervous; embarrassed

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As Suwayh

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stop

3

referee

1

's house; 's home

4

shivering; trembling

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to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed

2

(walking a long distance) at a steady pace; trudgingly

1

to rest; to suspend; to give relief

1

obstinate; stubborn; headstrong

1

to copy; to imitate; to counterfeit; to forge

1

something; some kind of; for some reason

4

older brother and younger sister

2

to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one

1

to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up

1

to make noise; to make racket; to rustle; to swoosh; to make merry; to clamor; to clamour

2

psychic power

1

having a headache; racking one's brains; troubling over something

1

to make an appeal; to urge

1

to speak; to say; to vocalize

1

thud; thump; bang

1

to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other

1

confusion; distraction; derangement

1

to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to become complicated

4

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

1

to go through; to pass through; to get through; to cut across

1

early summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar

1

knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things

2

point; gist; essentials; knack; trick; the ropes

3

(story of the) Forty-seven Rōnin; the Treasury of Loyal Retainers; Chūshingura

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The 47 Ronin

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lord; master

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vengeance; revenge; retaliation

2

seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

2

re-; again; repeated; deutero-; deuto-; deuter-

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government service; entering government service; (of a ronin) finding a new lord or master to serve

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clever; intelligent; well-behaved (esp. children and pets); obedient; (arch.) good (with words)

2

knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things

2

to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge

1

Western brute (esp. American and British); Western savage

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street corner

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