jpdb beta

town; block; street; road; chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m); chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)

2

to visit; to call on; to arrive (of a season, situation, etc.); to come; to appear

4

protagonist; main character; hero; head (of a household); proprietor (of a store)

1

to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated

11

duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus

2

sleeplessness; insomnia; wakefulness

1

to be ill; to suffer from

1

exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin

4

when; at what time; how soon; normal times; ordinary days

5

to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to

28

maintenance; preservation; improvement

1

hence; for that reason

1

grasp (of the situation, meaning, etc.); understanding; control; hold; grip

2

destination (one is heading towards); goal

2

to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)

25

to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on

2

cloakroom; checkroom

2

charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage

2

front (aspect, weather, war-front, etc.); reception (e.g. in a hotel); front desk; front office; team management

3

discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude

3

hotel worker; hotelman; hotelkeeper; hotelier

1

to inform; to give notice; to tell in advance; to ask for permission (before doing something); to ask first

1

backyard; background; room in a store or restaurant not open to customers (often storage room)

1

to set foot into; to enter; to step inside; to cross the threshold

7

as expected; as predicted

3

large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)

4

rucksack; knapsack; backpack

48

(not) very; (not) so; (not) very much; (not) particularly; (not) especially

5

to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend

21

lobby; lounge

5

cable; cable railway

1

(electrical) outlet; (wall) socket; power point

2

end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap

4

simple; plain; modest

1

work; operation; task

7

source of electricity; electrical power; power (button on TV, etc.)

2

at once; immediately; without delay; promptly

13

to begin (doing); to start; to set about; to get down to

2

expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture

3

to feel down; to feel sad; to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.); to be in an unfavourable condition; to fall into (e.g. a hole)

3

to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate

4

(a) few; some; several

1

(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion

11

machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus

5

rather than; more ... than ...

11

automatic; intransitive verb

2

use; application; employment; utilization; utilisation

2

automatic door

2

to wrench open; to break open; to pry open; to prise open; to force open

3

automated teller machine; automatic teller machine; asynchronous transfer mode; ATM; anti-tank missile

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