jpdb beta

to become defiant; to fight back; to turn upon; to take the offensive

6

to resort to violence; to perform a drastic act

2

forgery; falsification; fabrication; counterfeiting

1

flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle

1

greed; cruelty; callous; (arch.) insistent; (arch.) insistence

2

reason; logic; sense; truth; right

4

curious onlookers; rubbernecks

1

to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart

13

to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue

1

outfield; outfielder; outfield bleachers; third party; outsider

6

to gather in a circle; to form a circle

1

to run out (e.g. of the room)

2

for two people's eyes to meet; catching someone's eye; making eye contact; meeting a person's gaze

1

combatant; fighter

1

crackling; cracking; clapping; incessantly (blinking)

7

one's face turning pale (ashen); the color being drained from one's face

1

having good eyesight

1

cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)

7

prayer (for something); supplication

1

racer

1

hey; listen

3

cheep cheep; tweet tweet

9

so; therefore; for that reason; if so; if that is the case; in that case

2

call; visit; inquiry; enquiry; question

1

precipitous; rugged; inaccessible; grim; severe; stern

2

strange tale; curious report; strange report

1

claws and fangs; claws and tusks; clutches; devious design; pawn; stooge

13

to pierce; to penetrate; to sting (wound or sensitive area, etc.); to smart; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice)

2

to tremble with fear

2

(turned out) all right in the end

1

my; one's own; I ...; one ...

2

modesty; humility; being humble

1

union; unity; bundling; binding; (arch.) putting on (clothes, armour, etc.)

5

practical; pragmatic; hands-on; nuts and bolts

2

lobby; lounge

2

kamaboko; steamed seasoned fish paste, usu. in a semicylindrical shape on a strip of wood and sliced to go in soup, etc.

3

general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different

5

alarm; warning

3

to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate

1

to be worth it; to pay

2

beat; round

2

sultry; sweltering; stuffy; uncomfortably hot-looking (clothing, etc.); stuffy-looking

1

what is to be done?; what should (I) do?; what (am I) to do?

2

self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself

7

cavalry; mobility; maneuverability

5

fatal wound

7

away

1

superiority; predominance

2

worldly-wise man

1

monster

1