jpdb beta

happy; auspicious; propitious; naive

1

elbowroom; leeway; room; reserve; margin; allowance

1

personal grudge; personal enmity

1

worry; anxiety; concern

1

worry; fear; anxiety; concern

1

compromise; giving in

1

to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)

1

it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?

1

incompetent; have no merit

1

quarrel; dispute; argument

3

at a loss for words; stumped for words

1

insult; affront; slight; contempt (e.g. of court)

2

long, two-handed sword

1

to dodge; to evade; to avoid; to sidestep

6

at full speed; as fast as one's legs can carry one

1

habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle

3

to kick flying (often a person in sport, martial arts, etc.)

2

tedious; boring; being fed up with

1

look who's talking; you're one to talk; you can talk

1

strong; hard; manly

1

to stimulate; to stir up; to arouse

1

obstruction; inhibition

3

wrong direction; different direction (from what one expected)

1

behavioral pattern

1

before one's own eyes; from under one's very nose; without doing anything; without resistance; helplessly; negligently

1

cannon; carom (billiards); cannon

1

(doing) as one is told

1

shell; cannonball

2

to fling (away); to hurl

4

majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly

1

human relations; personal relationships

1

humanity; empathy; kindness; human nature; common sense; customs and manners

2

doctrine; rule; principle; -ism

1

skill; proficiency; experience; dexterity

1

as it is bound to (happen); following the natural course; though possible as it may be

1

synopsis; outline; plot

1

to be widely recognized; to be famous

1

reconstruction; reorganization; reorganisation; reconstitution; reconfiguration

1

human-interest article; page-three news; police news

1

competent in all fields; jack of all trades; very active in many fields; versatile; all-round; (lit.) 8 faces and 6 arms

1

revamping; reshaping; rearranging; reorganizing

1

achievement; feat; meritorious deed; distinguished service

1

to express in a roundabout way

1

high power; high power output; explosiveness; explosive power; instantaneous force

1

gift; boon; (good) result; fruit (e.g. of one's efforts)

1

tactics; strategy

1

talkative; loose-lipped; persiflage; frivolous talk

5

good-for-nothing; spineless; gutless; spiritless; feckless; pluckless

1

to destroy; to crush; to break by striking; to spoil; to ruin

1

talkativeness; garrulity; loquacity

1