jpdb beta

intercept; interception; counter-attack

1

to start to move; to get going; to come alive

1

break (rest); break (tennis, boxing, snooker, etc.); becoming popular; becoming a hit

2

nightmare; bad dream

1

anguish; trouble; agony

1

too much; excessive; too

2

idea; notion; sense (e.g. of duty); resignation (to one's fate); acceptance; observation and contemplation

2

policeman's rope; arresting (a criminal)

1

gentle; peaceable; amicable; without fuss; simply

2

that kind; competition; match

1

to raise (esp. overhead); to brandish (e.g. sword); to flourish; to wield (e.g. power, authority); to proclaim one's principles

1

to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate

1

with a bang

1

power; might; authority; influence

2

elbowroom; leeway; room; reserve; margin; allowance

1

space; air; midair; (from) memory; (by) heart

1

to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to whirl (in the wind); to flutter (about); to swirl

1

right in half

1

forward; officious; impertinent; intrusive

2

threat

1

report card; result sheet

4

to fall ill; to suffer from (e.g. a disease); to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ); to be depressed; to feel down

1

alarm bell; fire bell; warning; wake-up call

1

to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip

1

dropkick; flying kick

1

(place of) refuge; escape; exit; way out; shelter; hiding place

1

brave; valiant; gallant; stirring; vigorous; rousing

1

blocking the way; standing in the way

1

second daughter

1

to recommend; to endorse (e.g. a candidate); to infer (from); to deduce; to think (something) through; to ponder deeply

2

main force; brute force; strong-arm

1

one's turn; one's shift; one's turn on stage; screen time; one's time (to act); one's chance

2

incomplete combustion; imperfect combustion; being off one's game; not doing one's best; being unable to use all of one's strength

1

generation of students educated under the "pressure-free" system (from the late 1970s onward)

1

mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better

1

old people; grandparents

1

mountain where old people were abandoned (according to legend); position or division in a company to which an old and ineffective person is transferred; women's college

1

claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention

2

opposite side; opposition

3

to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path

4

to cut off the retreat

1

attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment

2

to kill (with a weapon); to slay; to defeat (an opponent); to beat

2

to gain time; to play for time; to buy time

1

(frustratingly) slow; tedious; sluggish; roundabout (e.g. explanation); exasperating; irritating

1

magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly

3

mademoiselle

1

tyranny; atrocity

1

punishment; judgement; judgment; decapitation

1

fragment; small piece; scrap; shred (e.g. of emotion); trace; bit

1