jpdb beta

felony; serious crime

1

responsibility; duty; obligation

1

never (before)

1

to soak into; to sink into; to seep into; to sink into (one's mind); to be (deeply) ingrained; to be instilled

1

to devise an elaborate plan; to exercise one's ingenuity; to work out a scheme

1

bedmaking (at a hotel, etc.)

1

Old World (i.e. Asia, Africa, Europe)

1

information retrieval

1

phase (e.g. wave, electricity, moon); topology; register

1

(with a) whizz; hiss; zip; easily; with ease

1

hibernation

3

ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition

1

to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer

1

aloes wood (Taxus cuspidata var. nana); aloes-wood perfume; aloes-wood incense

2

dimly; faintly; with a faint light; warmly; friendly; in a heartwarming manner

1

freezing; cold storage; refrigeration

2

butter

2

sleeping in late; oversleeping; late riser; sleepyhead

1

aimlessly; unexpectedly (showing up); slowly swaying; staggering; moving feebly

1

whim; caprice; fancy; capricious; fickle; whimsical

1

video letter (message sent by video)

2

(frustratingly) slow; tedious; sluggish; roundabout (e.g. explanation); exasperating; irritating

1

to be oppressed by heat; to swelter; to boil; to seethe

1

changing (job, career, lifestyle, social position, beliefs, etc.)

1

raid; assault; attack

1

no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it

1

meddling; interfering; choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one

2

to lie deep in; to extend far back

2

upper stratum (classes, stories, storeys); upper layer; layer above

8

these guys; these fellows

3

return; giving back; giving up; relinquishing; surrendering

1

root of an evil; source of a problem; source of trouble; cause of misfortune

1

theft; robbery

3

vested interests

1

to become distinct

1

kindling; firelighter

1

lower layer; layer beneath; lower strata (classes)

2

deed; act; conduct; behavior; asceticism

1

on the way; as one goes; in the future; someday; eventually

1

anti-terrorist

1

to make someone move

1

to line up; to form a party

1

full view; total picture; whole story; full particulars; all the details

1

with an extreme cold (i.e. temperature); lonelily; lonesomely; (acting) coldly (toward someone)

1

thread (on an Internet forum, mailing list, etc.); topic; conversation; post

2

cold-hearted; callous; unfeeling; insentient (objects); insensate; inanimate

1

have to; have no choice but to; cannot help (doing); be compelled to; be obliged to; be forced to

1

performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

2

cold war; the Cold War

1

way (of doing); manner; method

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