jpdb beta

board; plank; sheet (of metal); plate (of glass); cutting board; chopping board

1

reliability; trustworthiness; dependability

1

nagging; faultfinding; carping; captious

1

anyone; anybody; everyone; whoever

3

favour; favor; favourite; favorite; patron; supporter

2

man

3

straight-laced person; stubborn person

1

lending (money); finance; loan; adaptability; versatility; flexibility

2

to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to

2

disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination

6

to hit the bullseye; to hit the mark (in tastes, humour, etc.)

1

to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show

4

it's no joke; gimme a break!

1

group with a common interest (e.g. students); club (e.g. company sports club); circle; circle (shape)

8

companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)

6

department (faculty) of literature

3

to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one

1

I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said

2

suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally

2

crevice; crack; spare moment; interval; chink (in one's armor, armour); unpreparedness

1

to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)

7

or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean

1

to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved

2

wild idea; delusion

2

to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause); to pin down; to ascertain; (arch.) to stab to death

2

equally (talented, etc.); evenly; neck and neck; nip and tuck

3

to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of

2

in terms of both ... and ...; from the perspective of ... as well as ...; whether it be ... or ...

4

Koharu

1

one's turn; one's shift; one's turn on stage; screen time; screentime

2

duty; function; office; mission; task

1

to chase around

1

favour; favor

2

New Year's party

1

to put back in a good mood; to cheer up

1

intolerant; small-minded; inflexible; unforgiving; unyielding; ungenerous

1

to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something

1

to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)

1

fool; idiot; dotage; senility; touched in the head (from); out of it (from)

1

why; how

1

by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)

2

eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality

2

fantasy

1

indicates question

23

photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie

1

brain; brains; mind

2

hard-disk

1

image data; graphics data; digital image

1

data; datum

1

looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to

1