jpdb beta

to throw out one's chest; to be puffed up with pride

7

a piece; a scrap; a fragment; iota; modicum; trace

1

hesitation; bewilderment; illusion; delusion; inability to reach enlightenment

5

conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation

14

outside of one's area of expertise

1

to concede one is entirely in the wrong (for the sake of argument)

1

to deem acceptable; to approve of; to value; to consider a good thing

1

Baekje (ancient Korean kingdom; 18 BCE-660 CE); Paekche

2

sparkle of one's eyes; insight; discernment; penetration

4

bathing; to bathe; to take a bath; to enter a bath

2

to be at a loss for words

4

scorn; disdain; contempt

2

bath

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branches and leaves; foliage; unimportant details; nonessentials; side issue

1

main thread (of a story)

3

stale; hackneyed; cliched

3

to take to; to let one's heart go out to

1

conflict; complication; troubles; discord

6

though; although; be that as it may; nonetheless

3

within the story (of a book, play, film, etc.)

1

declaration; statement

2

to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood

4

something; nothing (with neg. verb)

2

to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something

2

other self; alter ego; part of oneself (in someone or something else); incarnations of Buddha

1

incest

1

desire; wish; aspiration

2

to feel nauseous

1

silent (as the grave); deadly silent; deathly quiet

1

to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside

1

to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at)

3

resolute; firm; dauntless; undaunted

2

system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship

1

ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very

9

to soothe one's soul; to raise one's spirits

4

speaking of; (I told you) already; come on

8

as if (something untrue were actually true); like hell (e.g. "like hell I will")

2

general public; the masses

6

to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence

9

vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude

2

grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude

1

very; greatly; exceedingly

1

not necessarily so; is not always true

2

retailing; repeating (someone else's words, opinion, etc.); parroting; echoing

1

to cite an example

1

women and children

1

to take lessons in; to be taught; to learn (from a teacher); to study (under a teacher); to get training in

2

kabuki; Japanese classical drama

1

ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print

1

worldliness; vulgarity; coarseness

3