jpdb beta

store; shop; establishment; restaurant

7

theft; robbery

3

event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble

7

request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance

2

skill

1

protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation

5

interest; eagerness; enthusiasm

1

is not ... either; is (neither ...) nor ...; nor is it ...; does not ... either; (neither ...) nor ...; does not even ...

6

to pass (of time); to elapse

8

request; favor; favour; reliance; dependence; trust

1

to refuse; to decline; to deny

1

to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside

2

during a stay

1

prevention; protection (against); precaution

1

duty; function; office; mission; task; role

1

to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence

1

long and narrow

1

distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion

16

sofa; couch

5

Western clothing; Western binding

3

low voice; whisper

2

to talk together

1

wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam

18

interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)

2

I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality

16

detective story

1

subscriber; reader; admirer

1

that; the matter in question

1

to call on someone; to call at a place; to ask; to inquire; to hear; to be told

5

after; since

1

novel; story; (work of) fiction

4

to attract (to oneself, e.g. with bait or light); to draw close; to charm; to attract; to have a convulsion; to convulse

1

famous; well-known

3

to get (become) acquainted; to get to know; to get (become) intimate with; to become friendly with; to become friends

1

myself; yourself; I; me; you

7

I feel that ...; I feel as though ...; I have a feeling that ...; I have the impression that ...; I think that ...

4

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

12

nothing but; none other than

1

we

8

protagonist; main character; hero; head (of a household); proprietor (of a store)

1

reader

4

to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with

5

maniac; enthusiast; fan; mania; craze

1

customer; client; patron

1

acquaintance

2

relationship; relation; terms (good, friendly, etc.)

1

intimacy; affection; familiarity

1

social life; social intercourse

1

art; technique; means; way; stratagem; artifice

1

captive; prisoner; victim (of love, etc.); slave (to one's lust, etc.)

1