jpdb beta

somewhat below; slightly below

1

to estimate

1

guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation

3

high-class item

2

second grade; second class; secondary

1

superficial; half-hearted; shallow

1

to smash up; to defeat crushingly

3

money; metal

3

pulverization; pulverisation; smashing; demolishing

1

say; well; um; er

2

exaggerated; bombastic; highly colored; highly coloured

2

passing (a test, examination, etc.); pass (for admission, transport, etc.); ticket; pass (of a ball); (giving something a) pass; skipping (one's turn)

2

just as one thought; as usual; sure enough

2

frame; framework; outline

1

Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)

1

waterfowl; water bird; shorebird

1

feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)

1

to cram; to stuff; to jam; to squeeze; to compress; to pack

2

mat; canvas (boxing, wrestling)

1

canopy; dome; priestly minstrel's reed hood; reed hood worn by Komuso priests

2

petty bourgeois; lower middle class

1

to quiet; to calm down; to compose oneself; to settle down

1

sleep

1

size

1

width; breadth; freedom (e.g. of thought); latitude; gap; difference (e.g. in price)

1

reasonable (esp. price)

1

interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt

5

fearfully; timidly; nervously; cautiously; gingerly

2

confident; assured; self-assured; bullish (e.g. market)

1

re-; again; repeated; deutero-; deuto-; deuter-

2

demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire

4

to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)

2

desire; request; wish

3

inferior goods; faulty item

2

poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful

3

to mediate; to intervene; to smooth

3

as soon as possible

1

makeshift

2

just barely; only just; at the very limit; at the last moment

3

tyranny; atrocity

1

knowing no bounds; showing no signs of stopping or slowing down

1

to rescue from; to help out of; to save

2

coarse; crude; inferior

1

furthermore; even more

6

to be refined (character, manners); to be classy; to be polished

1

to buy (of a government, public agency, etc. from a private citizen); to purchase; to buy up (all of something)

1

to get change back; to be more than enough

1

severely beaten up; repeatedly punched and kicked; thoroughly defeated; attacked relentlessly (with words); fiercely criticised; bombarded with verbal abuse

1

every kind; all sorts

1

one by one; one each; one at a time

2