jpdb beta

compromise; concession

2

shorts; short pants

1

challenge; defiance; dare; attempt; try

1

to strip someone; to help someone remove (clothes)

10

to wish (for); to pray (for); to hope (for); to pray silently; to recite (Buddha's name, sutras, etc.) in one's mind; to chant (a silent prayer)

3

now that it's come to this; since it's come to this

7

remaining heat; residual excitement; lingering enthusiasm

4

to fade; to lose colour (color); to discolour (discolor)

2

to be complicated; to be elaborate; (arch.) to push in; (arch.) to be crowded

4

thus

32

bump; lump; protuberance; swelling

1

sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)

19

to settle peacefully; to work out peacefully; to come to an amicable solution; to become reconciled

2

serving (of food); helping; chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce

1

to be unreasonable; to whine; to throw a tantrum

2

forcibly; against one's will

5

summer term (e.g. school); summer period

1

male student

4

indeed; it's no wonder

7

to turn yellow; to become tinged with yellow; to yellow (with age)

2

printing

1

small-format paperback book; pocket paperback

1

auction

2

impulse buying; impulse purchase

1

electronization; digitization; computerization

2

nostalgia; homesickness

5

sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care

7

making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi

3

different suitabilities; being cut out for certain things (and not for others)

2

thin veneer; hasty preparation; knowledge or skill learned as a stopgap; re-tempering a dull sword (so that it looks as if it's sharp, but is actually unusable)

1

real experience; actual observations

3

oh; ah; I'll be darned

29

couscous; cuscus (variety of phalanger)

1

nonsense; irresponsible remark; codswallop; random; haphazard; unsystematic

19

feces (esp. animal); excrement; dung

40

book title

1

time lag

1

battle formation; camp; encampment; group; gang; war

1

very early in the morning; so early in the morning; at this ungodly hour

8

Marquis de Sade

3

origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology

2

marquis; marquess

1

monastery; convent; cloister; abbey

1

after death

8

to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up

19

mess; spoiled; spoilt; (come to) nothing; ruin

4

to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)

2

leaving behind; desertion; abandonment

20

to hang one's head; to droop one's head

2

if I'm forced to say something; if anything; if I must say; if I must choose

2