jpdb beta

number (in a series); (one's) turn; watch; guard; rank; standing; bout

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Ishikawa prefecture (Hokuriku area)

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national highway

3

number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.

2

along

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establishment (of a business); founding

1

Hokuriku region of Honshu (incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)

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chain store

1

comfort food; soul food

1

New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

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homecoming; returning home

2

time; season; period; phase; stage

1

large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting)

1

television; TV; TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast

2

skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid

1

ramen restaurant

1

to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide

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oil

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juice; sap; soup; broth

1

without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory

2

Tang dynasty (of China; 618-907); T'ang dynasty; (arch.) China; (arch.) foreign country

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noodles; (arch.) flour

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Caught in the Rain

1

(Chinese) chili oil; chile oil; chilli oil

1

strongest

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withering; shrivelling; shrinking; atrophy; contraction

1

natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder

1

there; over there; genitals; private parts; that far; that much

3

hostility; animosity; enmity

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hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little

1

help

1

phobia; morbid fear

1

inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity

1

to choose at one's own discretion; to choose when to do something; to estimate (the time for something)

1

just right (time, size, length, etc.)

1

splash; spray; chance blow; by-blow; getting dragged into (a quarrel, etc.)

1

to seize the initiative

1

if you think about it; come to think of it

1

sense; sensation; feeling; intuition

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to become blunt; to grow dull; to become less capable; to weaken; to falter

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to be off one's guard

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serious; severe; grave; acute

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to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept

2

interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance

1

factional dispute; factional strife; rivalry between factions

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mundane; routine; everyday; unremarkable; common; day-to-day

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attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation

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psychological warfare

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to talk down; to corner someone in an argument

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although I say; although one might say; although called

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