jpdb beta

way of thinking

1

sentimental; emotional; maudlin; mawkish

1

marriage proposal; courtship

4

jest; joke; funny story

11

to giggle

2

love-hate relationships drama (movie, etc.)

1

to mix; to stir; to blend

1

won't you

1

softly; mildly; gently; politely

1

refusal; rejection; denial; veto

2

man with wife and kids

1

to accomplish; to fulfill; to carry out

1

principle of laissez-faire

1

charm; amulet

1

to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear

2

the sixth sense; intuition; hunch

1

to guess right

1

to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to be understood; to be comprehended; to be honored

3

tactician; schemer; intriguer; resourceful person

1

puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex

1

poisonous air; poisonous gas; poisonous ingredient; poisonous nature; malice; spite

1

to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)

2

plump

4

squirrel (any mammal of family Sciuridae); Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)

1

left arm; left-handed (baseball pitcher)

2

to get damaged; to get chipped; to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt (reputation)

1

trivial; not amounting to much

1

city dweller

1

feeling; mood; disposition; mental attitude; somewhat; slightly

1

sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic

1

state of emergency

1

hail (e.g. of bullets); barrage; storm; rain and hail

1

news; word; tidings; omen

1

what; what sort of thing; everything; anything; what (on earth)?; what's the meaning of this ...?

2

order; sequence; procedure

1

to raise (one's voice)

1

invasion; raid; attack; visitation (of a calamity)

4

poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty

3

financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence; living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time

1

daily employment; hiring by the day; day laborer; day labourer

1

to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor

1

because

1

circulation (money, goods, etc.); distribution; circulation (air, water, etc.); ventilation; negotiable (e.g. shares); distributional

2

cooking; food preparation

1

resident of Tokyo; citizen of Tokyo; Tokyoite

1

to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post); to be delivered

2

to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)

1

to have tears in one's eyes; to be close to crying

3

corpse; dead person

1

neigh; whinny; bray

1