jpdb beta

medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic

8

erratic; offbeat; wild; extraordinary

2

speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)

3

forced to use; forced into a position

1

assumption; supposition; hypothesis

1

peacetime; time of peace; ordinary times; normal times

2

accomplishment; execution

1

to line up; to put in a row; to add (to a group); to accept (as a member of an organization, etc.); to link; to put together

1

acquisition; obtaining; coming to hand

6

beyond expectations; beyond what one expected; not foreseen; exceeding assumptions

9

so much; so often; oh, yes!; that's it; that's right; quite

12

possible; likely; probable

4

provision of information

5

inference; deduction; induction; reasoning

4

real intention; true motive; true meaning

4

vein (esp. in head)

2

beneficial; profitable; useful; helpful; instructive

1

to hang; to hang up

7

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

2

among these; between these; of these; in here; in this

2

inferior; coarse; poor quality; inadequate; deteriorated

1

discerning (quick) eye; keen insight

2

virgin; maiden

4

outdoors; outside; open air; fields; outskirts; suburbs

1

to check; to stop; to keep back

3

assuming that ...; supposing that ...

1

huge; big; gargantuan

12

stopper; cork; plug; tap; faucet; stopcock

2

weather vane; fence-sitter; opportunist

1

by the way; meanwhile; on the other hand

1

whim; caprice; whimsy; fickle; moody; uneven temper

1

percussion hammer; firing hammer; cocking piece

1

small arms

4

Cocking

2

to rhyme (with)

1

very easily

1

hint; suggestion

1

to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up and eat; to snack on; to pick out (the main point); to summarize

1

ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious

1

genital organ; genitalia; sexual organ; reproductive organ

1

to get tired of (doing); to lose interest in

1

desire; wish; request; entreaty; prayer; (written) application

3

to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage

3

nonchalant air; unruffled air

2

to flick out; to spring out; to calculate; to work out; to expel (from a group); to drive out

1

leaping; activity; leapfrog (over a problem); making a leap (e.g. in logic); making great strides; making rapid progress

1

unlikely; improbable

1

answer; solution

14

(at) one bound

2

to pick out item(s) from a group to keep

1