jpdb beta

spotless integrity; absolute honesty; uprightness

2

slamming one's hand into the wall in front of someone (e.g. to stop them from leaving; often viewed as romantic); banging on the wall (e.g. to quieten one's neighbour)

1

to see to it that ...; to make sure that ...; to try to ...; to make an effort to ...

1

being painfully true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark); having an earache; feeling pain in one's ear

1

gross; disgusting; sickening

1

jewelry; jewellery

1

one leap (i.e. skipping intermediate stages); one jump; one step; jumping (with both feet together)

1

amount sold; sales; proceeds; takings; turnover

1

one of Japan's foremost; leading in Japan

1

reproachful; resentful; spiteful

4

Sean

3

tearfully; in tears; weeping; reluctantly; unwillingly; with a heavy heart

2

sense for (how to use) money; money sense

1

shopping bag

4

the other; the other one

1

when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

3

movements; bearing; deportment; farewell dinner (given by someone about to leave on a trip)

2

going straight (to); going direct; unwavering action; decisive action; upright conduct

1

muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders)

2

fraud; swindle

1

imitation; sham; -like

2

sluggish; languid; listless; bothersome; tiresome

1

change of heart; change of mind; change in love interest; (arch.) mental derangement; (arch.) madness; (arch.) insanity

2

sexual love; eros

1

to relearn; to brush up

1

present point (i.e. in history); at the present time

2

on the one hand ... (and on the other ...); on one side

2

extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd

2

hitting endlessly; beating up comprehensively

1

to be unable to do; to find something difficult to do

1

elevator; lift; elevator

2

to flutter (in the wind); to wave; to turn over; to flip over; to suddenly change (attitude, opinion, etc.); to suddenly switch

1

storey; story; stairs; stage (in chronostratigraphy); counter for storeys and floors of a building

2

Mario

1

tea

1

to collapse on the street (from illness, hunger, exhaustion, etc.); to fall down dead on the road

2

long-sleeved kimono

5

sensational; inflammatory; incendiary; (sexually) suggestive; lascivious

1

lump of iron; iron ingot

1

mastery; learning through experience; realization; realisation; comprehension

1

to have a meal; to eat; to make a living; to earn one's bread

1

to sleep like a log; to sleep deeply

3

previous remarks

2

kana; Japanese syllabaries (i.e. hiragana and katakana)

2

there; that way; you

76

to sit up

1

slapping on (stamp, sticker); flopping down

2

right eye

4

wise; sagacious; intelligent; sensible

1

truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; indeed; really

1