jpdb beta

dialogue; discussion; conversation; interaction

1

to hold down; to twist someone's arm; to force (someone) to yield (e.g. an argument); to make (someone) surrender

1

to hit and break open; to crush; to smash

1

Nobel Prize

3

to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch

1

author; writer; novelist; artist

4

query; interrogation; enquiry; question; inquiry

1

to feel ashamed

1

right or wrong; good or bad; quality; having both merits and demerits; having both advantages and disadvantages

1

characteristic; traditional; peculiar; inherent; native; eigen-

1

to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively

1

public execution

1

advocate; proponent; supporter

1

harmonious; peaceful; congenial; friendly; happy

1

fatal; deadly; mortal

1

trace

1

certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts

1

matter of life or death; life-and-death problem

1

foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse

2

exclusion; removal; rejection; elimination; abatement; lifting (sanctions, etc.)

4

ancient times

2

hunters and gatherers

2

community

2

survival rate

1

to raise; to lift; to boost; to enhance

1

jungle

2

extreme; extremity

1

rejection; expulsion; boycott; ostracism

1

foreign enemy; outside invader

2

how; in what way

1

mask; disguise; guise; mask

2

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

1

charity; benevolence; philanthropy; (love for) humanity; fraternity; brotherhood

1

component; factor; item (e.g. in list); element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)

2

to envy; to be envious of; to be jealous of

1

revolution; 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)

1

epidemic; plague; pestilence

2

to cling to; to depend on; to embrace; to hug

1

to cling

2

to condemn; to blame; to urge; to press; to torture; to torment

1

sticky; thick (e.g. thickly plastered); ikky; to stick closely

1

thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)

1

snow; snowfall

3

you're welcome; don't mention it; not at all; my pleasure

1

bento; Japanese box lunch

1

Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama); Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto); fox (said to be messengers of Inari); fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes); inarizushi

2

Paik

1

mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling

2

swallowing whole; swallowing without chewing; taking something in without fully understanding it; accepting without reservation; accepting something as-is

2

way of eating; how to eat

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