jpdb beta

learning; acquisition (of a skill, knowledge, etc.)

3

practice; practising; training; study

2

writing; composition; essay; sentence

3

subject; theme; motif

1

various; a variety of; all kinds of; many; diverse

3

Hazlitt

1

Ruskin; Laskin; Luskin; Raskin

1

come; come now; well; who knows; well now; let's see

1

brown

1

to remake; to rebuild

1

practice; practising; training; discipline

2

period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness

5

several years; a few years

1

throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

4

to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough

1

period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)

2

novel; (short) story

17

master; expert

1

way; route

5

early on; earlier on; from early

1

look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting

4

wise; sensible; well-advised; intelligent; sagacious; prudent

4

wise; clever; smart

3

to do so; to do thus

4

plan; design; layout

1

on the occasion of; at the time of

1

to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce

2

road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)

3

diligent; industrious

2

to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)

3

all one's power (strength, energy, efforts); one's utmost

3

to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)

4

to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign

2

to look back on (the past); to reflect on; to look behind (at); to turn round (and look); to consider; to concern oneself about

2

people; crowd; masses; the public

1

(verbal) abuse; insulting remark; taunt

1

father and mother; parents

1

grief; sorrow; anguish; lamentation

1

another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to

3

moment; second; instant

2

very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow

5

insincerity; dishonesty; untruthfulness; bad faith

1

lecher

1

pretension; conceit; hubris

9

crunching; chewing or crushing something hard; hard and crunchy; very skinny; emaciated

1

egoist

1

draw (in go, poetry contest, etc.); tie

2

affectation; pretension

1

one long straight object (e.g. strand of hair, beam of light, wisp of smoke); a single bloodline; earnest; resolute; (arch.) ordinary; (arch.) common

2

consistently; unchangingly; throughout

1