jpdb beta

chilly; unpleasantly cold

1

reality; actuality; hard fact

3

fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she

13

I; me; you; manservant

17

spectacle; sight; scene

2

to cross one's mind; to occur to one

2

15; fifteen

2

same age

1

to employ; to hire; to charter

1

income; receipts; revenue

1

one's property; personal effects; one's belongings

1

to sell (well); to be well known; to be popular; to be famous

2

to sell

7

diligently; assiduously; industriously; beavering away

1

to move around

1

notebook; account book; register

10

huge mound; heap; pile

1

study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science

4

those (near the second person)

3

to like; to be pleased with; to be delighted with; to take a liking to; to suit one's fancy

3

toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything

3

institute; academy

41

study; diligence; discount; reduction

9

case; situation

2

first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole

4

greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; revenge

9

to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled

16

in addition; besides

4

bedside; near one's pillow

2

doll; puppet; figure

18

note (letter) left behind; will

2

to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to load (luggage); to carry; to send out (on the airwaves, etc.); to deceive

4

to care for (the sick); to nurse; to attend (someone's deathbed)

2

stealthily; secretly; in secret

6

to sigh; to breathe a sigh

5

care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter

1

as if; as though

10

sleep-talking; nonsense; gibberish

2

residential area; quarter; neighbourhood; neighborhood

8

(raw) material

4

patching (clothing); darning; cobbling together (other people's writings, thoughts, etc.); gathering

1

length and width; length and breadth; four cardinal points; every direction; as one wishes; as one pleases

2

waterway; canal; channel; swimming pool lane

10

to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)

5

just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that

1

brick

1

mortar; plaster; stucco

2

to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify

3

at a stroke; with a single swoop

2

to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)

2