jpdb beta

ceremony; rite; ritual; service

1

place; spot; grounds; arena; stadium; range

1

clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect

1

school; sect; party

1

participation; joining; entry; adherence

1

secret; private; surreptitious

1

offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)

1

to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)

2

that's the way it is; such is life

1

contradiction; inconsistency

1

to determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause); to pin down; to ascertain; (arch.) to stab to death

1

but I suppose; it seems; probably; I guess

1

slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late

4

already; too late

4

negative; passive; half-hearted; unmotivated

1

attitude; manner; behaviour; attitude (towards an issue, etc.); position; stance

1

to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing

1

beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially

1

regarding as dangerous; identifying as a threat

1

assassin

2

to send (something unsolicited); to send without the receiver's request

1

patriotic concern for the future of one's country

1

man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai; person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member

1

now; nowadays

1

pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand

1

to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)

1

how many; how old

1

denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like

6

called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...

1

summons; summonsing; citation; subpoena; arraigning; calling

1

improvisation; improvised; impromptu; extempore

1

thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love

2

enjoyment; pleasure; diversion; anticipation; looking forward to

2

straight; as the crow flies

1

to tie; to bind; to bear (fruit); to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to connect (two distant places); to close tightly

1

lips

1

tree sparrow (Passer montanus); talkative person; knowledgeable person

2

to jump up; to spring up; to move around; to bounce up and down; to pound (of one's heart, e.g. with excitement); to throb

2

to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted

2

loud laughter

1

disguising oneself as a man; dressing as a man (for a woman); male clothing

2

destructive power; destructive energy; destructive force

1

outstanding; excellent; exceptional; preeminence; distinction; extraordinariness

1

to happen to pass by

2

woman

1

ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly

1

pish; pooh; I see; oh; indeed

1

notice; attention; observation

1

feeling; mood

1

hem; (trouser) cuff; bottom part; bottom edge; foot (of a mountain); tips (of hair)

1