jpdb beta

appropriate; suitable; fitting; apt; proper; right

3

making use of; application; practical use; operation; handling; steering (esp. a boat)

2

unsuitable; inappropriate; improper

1

way to use something; treatment; management (of help)

1

custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice

2

traditional

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to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)

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shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player

2

to apply for; to make an application; to propose (marriage); to offer (mediation); to make an overture (of peace); to challenge

1

first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all

11

what one desires; what one hopes for; suits me well; could ask for nothing better; bring it on

1

thorough (criticism, defeat, etc.); utter; serious

1

to intrude; to butt in; to meddle; to be forward; to be self-assertive; to show off

1

fleeting (glimpse, glance, etc.)

2

rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)

3

to wave; to shake; to sprinkle; to throw (dice); to cast (actor); to allocate (work); to turn down (somebody)

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to accept somebody's challenge; to take up the gauntlet

2

elite; best; pick; cream of the crop

2

to do

2

pocket

5

big; large; great

6

you (plural)

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about this time

5

area; vicinity; side; edge; circumstances

1

training; drill; practice; discipline

3

through; throughout; in the course of; all over or throughout (e.g. a place)

3

middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart

2

terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful

15

to arise; to break out; to well up; to burst

9

to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

5

heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)

2

to lean over (someone); to bend over; to lean on; to weigh on one; to bear (heavily) on one; to lie on one

1

to wrap up

5

as if; as though

10

smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)

1

fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard

2

burst of laughter; roar of laughter

1

-itis (indicating an inflammatory disease)

1

to soar; to fly high; to be whirled up; to make merry; to be ecstatic; to be in high spirits

2

before long; soon; almost; nearly; finally; in the end

5

snappingly; with a snap

1

prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum

1

to smash; to break

2

shaking violently

1

to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to go down (sun); to wane; to sink

3

without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after

11

to draw or pull something towards oneself (e.g. chair)

1

to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die

9

to be surprising; to be shocking; to be jaw-dropping

1

miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.); cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.); (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors

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