jpdb beta

searching for the culprit; trying to find out who did something

2

shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff

2

to strain one's eyes; to look closely; to stare at

1

to be shy; to be bashful; to feel awkward; to feel embarrassed

3

made of iron

1

principle; aim; main purpose; central part; pillar

16

older brother; elder brother

61

accountant

3

association; society; organization; organisation

1

Rotary Club

1

to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)

3

succession; successor

25

half-cooked; vague; halfhearted; indecisive

1

in a bad mood

1

waste of time; killing time

3

uniform resource locator; URL

11

Baekje (ancient Korean kingdom; 18 BCE-660 CE); Paekche

1

electronic edition; online edition

1

coup d'état; coup

7

certain place

2

private talk; confidential talk; secret talk

4

one-to-one; one-on-one

1

to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous

1

paying one's own expenses; going into business for oneself; working independently; person who earns their own living

1

idea; conception; way of thinking; approach; expression

1

complete fabrication

1

fabricated story; cooked up (news) report

1

weekly newspaper

1

within a company; in-house; within a shrine; shrine precincts

5

huge sum (esp. of money); enormous sum; massive amount

1

how (dare you)

1

to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to cobble up; to put together in a hurry

1

(not even) an inch; (not even) a little bit; (lit.) one millimeter

1

tide; tidal current; tendency; drift; trend

5

gun; cannon; artillery; ordnance

2

first report (esp. of an incident, disaster, or news story); initial report

1

gaudy; loud; garish; intense; harsh; extreme

1

to kick down; to defeat

1

yellow journalism

1

national paper; paper with a national circulation

1

plot; intrigue; scheme; conspiracy; agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act

1

to kill

1

planning; scheming; maneuvering; manoeuvring

2

of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant

2

falsehood and truth; fiction and fact

1

unpreparedness; falsehood; Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

1

to become overgrown; to grow thick; to spread; to run rampant; to thrive

3

to see; to witness; to observe; to catch sight of; to get a glimpse of; to encounter

1

to be in a fit (of anger); to rage

2

tree (e.g. Christmas); tree structure; tree diagram

1