jpdb beta

favorable; favourable

1

poor; meagre; meager; feeble; scanty; shabby

1

twentieth century; Nijisseiki pear (variety of nashi); Nijusseiki pear

1

beginning (of a century, etc.)

1

abstract painting; abstract art

1

copy (of the real thing); copying; reproduction; tracing

1

difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

1

Rorschach test; Rorschach inkblot test

1

muscle-building drug (e.g. anabolic steroids, creatine); muscle-building agent

2

abuse; misuse; misappropriation; using to excess

2

swelling; enlargement

2

taking an examination (esp. for entrance to a school or university)

2

daruma; tumbling doll; Bodhidharma; prostitute

2

aircraft carrier

4

great enthusiasm; high excitement

2

to rant and rave; to raise hell

2

looking like (someone); taking after (either of one's parents)

2

description; expression (in words); qualification (e.g. of a noun with an adjective); form; figure; appearance

1

Twilight zone

1

to breathe out; to exhale

1

to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)

5

picking; collecting; harvesting; extraction

1

to be extremely cautious; to be as sure as sure can be; to make assurance doubly sure

3

something or other; one thing or another; this or that

1

minutes (period of)

55

formal; courteous; ritual; ritualistic

1

to infer; to figure out; to get an idea of; to tell; to imagine; to guess

2

(establish) friendly (cordial) relations (with, between); (form) friendship (e.g. with a nation)

1

to chip off; to scrape off; to prune

1

compression; condensing; shortening; compression (of data)

1

matter; thing; affair; circumstance

3

intellectual

1

head; brains; intellect; understanding

1

cunning and experienced in the ways of the world; crafty and worldly-wise; sly old (fox)

1

sharp and able person

1

vague; desultory; distracted; loose; half-hearted; diffuse

1

to get (information) out of someone; to extract (information) from someone; to find out (through questioning); to begin listening (to)

2

killing time; keeping oneself occupied; time killer; wasting time; waste of time

7

by force

1

paying no heed to; not caring about; taking no notice of

1

way of talking; speaking style

2

to pay off completely (e.g. loan)

1

same feeling; same sentiment; same opinion; sympathy; agreement; concurrence

1

being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; (lit.) throwing up (one's) hands

1

pose; pose; posturing; pause; rest

4

rock 'n' roll; rock and roll

4

capoeira

1

dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)

1

master; teacher; stable master

1

sense of rhythm; rhythmical sense

1