jpdb beta

to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)

14

recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement

1

what kind of; whatever sort of; no matter what; however much

1

to abide one's shame

1

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

1

to deprecate oneself and praise the listener; to abase oneself

1

silk damask; satin damask

3

to be out of patience; to be unable to put up with something anymore

1

to rebuke; to scold harshly

1

receiving; welcoming; going to meet; final call; call of fate; approach of death

1

to lose one's energy; to be cowardly

1

to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)

1

it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that

1

dumbfounded; in mute amazement

2

astonished beyond words; speechless out of shock

1

exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)

1

now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again

2

to admonish; to persuade; to warn; to remonstrate

1

nervous; highly strung; sensitive; fussy; worried about petty things

2

to tell; to (try to) persuade; to advise; to warn; to admonish; to reason

2

as a child; when one was a child

2

... is the reason; ... is my excuse

3

disposition; temperament; temper; nature

1

promise; agreement; convention; rule; destiny; fate

2

desperate; hopeless

1

to rebuke strongly; to tell off

1

so much; so; like that

1

to flare up; to fly into a rage

1

to raise overhead

2

almost; very nearly; only just; barely; just in time

2

to take measures (in face of events being anticipated); to come to an agreement (in bargaining, etc.); to strike a bargain; to clap one's hands together

1

to bring near; to bring close; to let go near; to associate with; to bring (people) together; to let come near (of a person)

2

metallic taste; taste of iron

3

confession

1

to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake

1

to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

1

(all) together

1

to trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn

4

to trample underfoot; to tread on; to crush with a foot

2

jumbling together; lumping together; mixing up

1

to mash; to grind; to pulverize; to dissipate (a fortune); to run through; to lose

1

to shed tears

1

to hang over; to cover; to fall upon someone (responsibility, burden, pressure, etc.)

2

to bark; to howl; to howl (e.g. of the wind); to roar; to yell; to cry

2

even; but; however

3

only; merely; just; at most; no more than

2

to break down crying

1

total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects

6

to wrap up; to pack; to cover; to envelop; to conceal (a feeling); to hide

4

before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to

1