jpdb beta

easy; simple; plain

1

I feel that ...; I feel as though ...; I have a feeling that ...; I have the impression that ...; I think that ...

3

spectator; audience

2

remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted

1

question; query

1

feeble

1

next year

3

to forge; to temper; to drill; to train; to discipline

7

this year

2

to swell up; to bulge; to swell (of a budget, population, etc.); to increase significantly; to balloon

1

(medieval) knight; samurai on horseback

14

loud; sonorous; ringing

1

to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar

1

preliminary test or trial; tryout; workout; warm-up

1

two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)

1

status; position; method; way; rule; regulation

1

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

2

obligation; duty; charge; responsibility

1

promotion; raising of status

2

to draw a line (between); to make a distinction (between); to distinguish (between)

1

getting poised again for charging; toeing the mark again; starting again; getting a fresh start; going back to square one

2

although I say; although one might say; although called

2

to turn round; to face about; to turn about

1

to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to

1

selection; choice; picking out; National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament; Spring Koshien

1

sweeping sideways; mowing down

1

to distance oneself (from); to keep (something or someone) at a distance; to maintain a distance (from)

1

shooting from the hip; starting something without sufficient preparation; acting on a vague estimate (of the situation)

1

range (of a rifle, missile, etc.)

1

to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)

1

gravity; gravitation; gravitational pull

1

wearing a kasaya; wearing an article of clothing in the same manner as a kasaya (i.e. draped over one shoulder); slashing (someone) with a sword diagonally from the shoulder

1

to cut downward; to slash downward

1

to brush away; to sweep aside; to repel (e.g. enemy); to drive away; to rout

2

to send flying with a kick

1

to roll; to tumble; to fall over; to roll over; to lie down; to be scattered about; to be lying around

3

high-pitched; shrill

1

to collide; to clash

1

to endure; to keep out (e.g. rain); to pull through; to get over; to surpass; to outdo

1

successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another

1

slash; slashing attack

3

(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain

2

to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into

1

to knock down; to shoot down; to lop off

1

end; conclusion; rounding up; revaluation

1

to throw up (e.g. mud); to splash (up); to flip up; to tip up; to raise sharply (e.g. prices); to hike

2

governor; leader; ruler

1

that field; the authorities (esp. the police); the yakuza; organized crime circles

1

to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind

3

to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot

1