jpdb beta

interview; audience; meeting; (viewing) party

2

salty sea breeze; salt wind

5

elopement; running away with a lover

1

predictable; repetitive; being in a rut; set in one's ways

1

demanding; urging

1

to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking

8

fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy

1

transactions; dealings; business

10

could result in (something undesirable); might end up (doing, happening); run the risk of

2

for a moment; even as a joke; even in the slightest degree

1

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

4

hostility; enmity

2

obstinate; stubborn; obdurate; headstrong; willful; perverse

4

to rule; to govern; (arch.) to see; (arch.) to look; (arch.) to watch

1

blinking (in surprise)

1

scolding; telling-off; rebuke; complaint; grumbling; fault-finding

13

devoted; self-sacrificing

2

so to speak; so to call it; as it were

7

to keep (something) a secret; to keep hidden (for ever); to continue to conceal

6

to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)

6

you have only to; all you have to (do); all that's required; as long as; if only

4

to rub on; to rub against; to lay the blame on; to strike (a match)

7

anxiously; impatiently; worriedly; fretting; getting worked up

6

shift the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); pass the buck

2

to be rested; to feel at ease; to repose; to be relieved

2

nagging; faultfinding; carping; captious

6

emergency exit

1

to feel uncomfortable; to be offended; to have a bad time

2

angle of fire

2

hair whorl

1

sorry; apologetic; remorseful

1

to be worried about; to be concerned for someone's welfare

4

war situation; progress of a battle

6

decisive; resolute; drastic

1

division; section; compartment; block; plot; lot

6

express home delivery service; express home delivery parcel (box, etc.)

2

station

1

a hard time; pains

2

to classify; to sort out; to sift through

1

successively; one after another; sequentially; one by one

6

fine article; good-quality item; quality product

1

exhibiting; showing; putting on display; putting up for sale; entering (a work into a competition); submitting

1

to assort; to classify; to journalize (in accounting); to journalise

1

rain

1

final destination; last stop; end; conclusion; goal

6

rubbish disposal chute

1

box; box (in theatre); booth (in restaurant, etc.); small rectangular building (e.g. telephone box); rectangular field area (batter's box, catcher's box); box (calfskin); central 4x4 area (othello)

9

classification; assortment; assortment journalizing (in bookkeeping)

2

packing; wrapping

3

storehouse; warehouse; godown

2