jpdb beta

high-class restaurant; high-end store

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salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold

4

to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

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material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick

2

dainty; delicate (e.g. fingers); fine; sensitive; delicate (feelings, sense, etc.); subtle

1

flavour; flavor; taste; charm; appeal; interest

1

to enjoy (oneself)

3

off-flavor; odd taste

1

as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also

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article; goods; fine thing; fellow; (arch.) prostitute; (arch.) price

2

unrelated; unconnected

1

soy sauce; shoyu

1

mirin; type of sweet rice wine used in cooking

1

taste; flavor; flavour

1

to soak; to dip; to steep; to moisten; to wet

1

juice; sap; soup; broth; (dipping) sauce

1

to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to absorb; to soak up

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clothes; garment; gown; robe; coating (e.g. glaze, batter, icing)

2

wherein; therein; thereinto

4

first 17-syllable verse of a renga; haiku; first five-syllable line of a tanka

1

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

2

mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door

7

to form a complete whole; to be joined together

1

exquisite; superb; perfect; miraculous

1

balance

2

to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie

3

vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude

7

often (happens); tend to; be apt to; be likely to

1

society; the world; the times

6

food; foodstuff; prey; victim

5

(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly

1

for example; for instance; e.g.

2

sukiyaki; thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan

2

leftovers (esp. food); remnants

1

remnant; residue; remaining; left-over

2

warm; mild; considerate; kind; warm (of a colour); mellow

7

cooked rice; meal

2

to dash (e.g. liquid on someone's face); to slosh; to splash; to souse; to pour

1

pulpy; soppy; sloppy; untidy; in a disarray

1

to stir; to churn; to rummage around; to throw into confusion; to throw into chaos

1

this world; this life; world of the living

4

tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing

3

sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

2

full; in plenty; ample

3

to smoke; to breathe in; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up

6

it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...

5

analysis

2

someone; somebody

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knock; knocking; fungo hitting; hitting balls for fielding practice

2

talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor

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