jpdb beta

today; this day

2

menses

1

etc.; et cetera; and so on

1

facing inward

2

to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly

4

humour; humor; safety; health; in a good mood; in high spirits

1

bribe; money under the table

1

spite; resentment

2

to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute

2

taking great pains

1

to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)

15

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)

2

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

4

to lose one's energy; to be cowardly

1

astonished beyond words; speechless out of shock

1

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

4

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

8

as a child; when one was a child

3

disposition; temperament; temper; nature

2

desperate; hopeless

1

to rebuke strongly; to tell off

1

to flare up; to fly into a rage

2

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

2

metallic taste; taste of iron

3

to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake

4

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

3

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

5

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

3

jumbling together; lumping together; mixing up

1

to shed tears

3

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

3

even; but; however

7

to break down crying

1

total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects

8

so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much

2

daydream; waking dream

2

living room

1

good news

1

completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)

1

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

2

youthful; young; young-looking

3

persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story

1

sorbaria

1

to make even; to make smooth; to make level; to average

1

to bear in mind; to keep remembering; to note

4