jpdb beta

lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pitiful

1

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

1

inconvenient; inexpedient; unfavourable; wrong; improper; objectionable

1

antipodes; other (opposite) extreme; opposite; antithesis

1

to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)

1

to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby)

1

to exchange glances; to look at each other; to postpone; to put off; to contrast; to compare

1

to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail

1

playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)

3

opening performance; opening act; curtain raiser; minor performer; minor storyteller; subordinate part

1

chair; stool; post; office; position

2

to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still

1

to recall; to remember

1

under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side

2

approval; endorsement

1

to be unable to understand; to baffle one's understanding; to be beyond one's comprehension

1

good and evil

2

to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of

1

directly opposite; right in front

1

other side; opposite side; other party

1

to strain; to stretch; to string up; to cover over (e.g. with tiles, ice, etc.)

1

sign; indication; omen; symptom

1

hailing each other; acting in concert; responding (to); agreement; concord

1

importance; gravity

1

hasty; rash; rushed; hurried; impatient; impetuous

1

to stimulate; to stir up; to arouse

1

order of chivalry; chivalric order

1

to hold an opinion

2

festival merrymaking; revelry

1

outward appearance; ostensible; public; official

1

to be ready; to be prepared; to be in order; to be put in order; to be adjusted; to be regulated

2

tough measure; firm step; strong measure

1

very; greatly; exceedingly

2

going through; going via; going by way of

2

exaggerated; extravagant; overdone

2

professional job; profession

1

behind closed doors; behind-the-scenes; (under the veil of) secrecy

2

to send out; to forward; to show (a person) out

1

economic; financial; economical; thrifty; frugal

1

to get in; to go in; to come in; to flow into; to set; to set in

1

human-wave tactics; throwing people at a problem

1

to get information; to find out; to get wind of

1

steady; honest; sober; straightforward

1

establishment; founding; setting (a record)

7

setting (someone) to work; employment; using; causative (verb, etc.)

3

word; vocabulary

4

old; olden

6

mold; mould; mildew

1

curio; antique

2

actual existence; real existence; existing in real life

1