jpdb beta

serpent (snake) and scorpion; detestation

1

to make someone realize (e.g. their mistake); to bring (something) home to someone; to teach someone a lesson

3

celebrated personage; big-wig; person in a high position

4

scholarship system

2

virtue; charm; merit; good point

1

principle of laissez-faire

1

culmination; acme; height; peak; ultimate; perfection

1

complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression

21

reliance; trust; faith; confidence

36

slander; bad-mouthing; abuse; insult; speaking ill (of)

2

tone

1

smoky; awkward; ill at ease

1

spaceship

10

model; dummy; maquette

7

discovery

3

number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.

5

building; construction

6

Jupiter (planet)

2

probe; inquiry; enquiry; investigation

4

ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)

3

human history

2

to be perfectly clear (water, air, etc.); to clear up

6

clear; bright; sunny

4

nineteenth day of the month; nineteen days; (arch.) fool; (arch.) simpleton

1

when it comes to the cause; when you get right down to it; as for what started it; as for the reason; originally

1

to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush

6

efficient

1

major cleanup; spring cleaning

1

New Year's Eve; December 31

1

bothersome; tiresome; bother to do

3

to take a breath; to take a short rest

5

without losing time (e.g. to do); without even time for (doing something)

8

New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

4

New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

4

average (normal, ordinary) year; every year; annually

1

first three days of the New Year (January 1-3)

1

rice cakes; pounded mochi rice

1

arrangement; preparations; search (by police)

5

same; similar; (just) like; equal

22

to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)

5

good boy; good girl

2

soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)

1

osechi; osechi-ryōri; traditional food eaten during the New Year's holidays

2

opportunity to show one's abilities; time to show one's stuff; one's province

1

to feed (e.g. an animal on oats); to let eat; to support (e.g. a family); to provide for; to inflict (damage); to deal (e.g. a blow)

1

closet

13

excavation; exhumation; discovery (e.g. new talent)

1

orderliness; put in order; tidying up; arranging neatly

5

to take a bath; to have a bath; to take a shower

2

step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan

4