jpdb beta

query; interrogation; enquiry; question; inquiry

1

to respond; to answer; to accept (an invitation, offer, etc.); to comply with (a request, etc.); to suit; to match

2

greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; courtesy visit (to offer condolences, say congratulations, pay respect, introduce oneself, etc.)

1

please; if you would; somehow or other; one way or another; whether (or not); if

2

to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken

1

soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself

3

to come to a settlement

1

few days

3

to get a phone call

1

presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch

3

feeling in one's bones; foreboding; premonition; presentiment; gut feeling; gut instinct

1

the whole face; (wearing an expression) all over one's face

1

bad news; news of a death; death notice

1

disquieting; threatening; turbulent; restless; unsettled; disturbing

1

depressive state (e.g. of manic depression); depressive condition

3

symptoms; condition (of a patient)

4

deterioration; getting worse; worsening; aggravation; degeneration; corruption

2

anyhow; at all events; in any case; either way; anyway

1

final; eventual; ultimate

5

decision; determination

1

being too late; losing one's final chance

1

persuasion

1

agreement; accord; correspondence; union; unity; cooperation

2

strange; unfamiliar; mysterious; suspicious

1

uneasiness; vague apprehension; premonition

1

just past noon; afternoon

1

landline telephone; fixed-line telephone

1

base unit; main telephone (esp. when there are extensions)

1

to look at; to gaze; to stare at

3

rapid (e.g. progress)

2

growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)

2

won't you

1

calm, cool, and collected; level and calm

1

sale; selling; selling point; gimmick; seller; vendor

1

for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)

2

to sound shrill (of a voice); to sound high-pitched and excited; to get excited; to become restless; to be thrown too high; to come in high

2

father; dad; husband; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he

1

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

6

discoverer

2

nursing in the home by visiting nurses

1

entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule

2

key; lock; key (to a problem, success, etc.); clue

1

to incline one's head to the side (in doubt); to tilt one's head to the side (in confusion); to be puzzled

4

door

3

control; check; restraint; inhibition

1

thin; slender; fine; unlucky

2

to perceive; to grasp (the situation)

1

who

1

to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)

1

once; for a short time; briefly; (arch.) one morning

3