jpdb beta

hmm; I see; hrm

1

signature; signing; sealing

2

meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview

3

connivance; tacit consent; toleration; acquiescence

1

without

2

to show signs of ...; to have the appearance of ...

1

successive generations; successive emperors

2

to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!

2

disadvantage; handicap; unfavorable position

2

extreme; extremity

2

sad; wretched; deplorable

1

rearing from infancy; training from an early age (e.g. an apprentice); teaching from an early stage (e.g. a subordinate)

1

even

1

to go back to the start; to reset; to restore; to return to the point (of a discussion); to return something (that has been moved) to previous place; to reconstitute

2

federal government (e.g. USA, Australia, Mexico, Germany, Canada)

15

guarantor; surety; sponsor; reference; bondsman

1

each nation; many nations; many countries

14

-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person

1

community property

1

standard; basis; principle

2

system; organization; organisation; imperial command; laws; regulation

3

Euro-; euro (the currency)

1

oath; vow; pledge; covenant

1

no skin off my nose; somebody else's problem; (lit.) fire on the opposite shore

1

one's own country

3

to be possible to occur

1

calamity; disaster; accident

3

to pick a fight

1

strong interaction; strong force

1

verbal gaffe; verbal slip; slip of the tongue; using improper words

1

cancelling (a debt); forgiving (a debt); being even; forgetting (what was said or done); pretending (something never happened)

1

commitment; pledge; promise

1

trend; tendency; movement; attitude

2

whole story; full picture; full particulars

1

recent years

2

most; extremely

7

dirty; filthy; disordered; messy; indecent (language, etc.); dirty

2

maintaining the status quo

1

to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to wince; to shrink back

1

call; visit

1

within the next couple of days; in a day or two

1

self-consciousness; self-awareness

5

courageous; brave; bold; valiant

2

to prostrate oneself before

1

at this rate

2

mental; mental health; mental state; mental resolve

1

alteration; falsification; faking

2

performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

2

war responsibility (esp. in relation to Japan's role in WWII)

2

incident; affair; happening; event

3