jpdb beta

innocent; blameless; guiltless

1

ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to

1

teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou dynasty Chinese army)

9

death sentence

1

to be about to get on (a train, bus, etc.); to be about to board; to start (doing); to begin; to get on top of; to lean over

1

drama; theatre; theater; play

1

mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable

1

to destroy; to break (by striking); to smash; to ruin (a plan, atmosphere, etc.); to spoil; to wreck

2

to clamour; to crowd; to jostle

1

irrepressibly aroused (esp. sexually); stimulated

2

legion

1

crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers

1

reason; circumstances; grounds; because of; due to; as a result of

1

all countries; the whole world; universal; all nations

1

vanilla

1

habit; behavior; behaviour; trait

1

aimlessly; without a goal

1

learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics

1

to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither

6

voiceprint

4

indirect

1

leaving behind; desertion; abandonment

1

silence

1

without a moment's delay; at once; immediately; instantly; promptly; without hesitation

1

to slip through (a crowd); to weave through (e.g. traffic); to pass through; to get around; to elude (e.g. the law); to evade

1

dripping; trickling; drop by drop; in drops

1

serious wound; hard blow

1

outsider; alien elements

1

heaven-sent child (in answer to a Shinto or Buddhist prayer); child (e.g. of an era); product

1

slight wound; minor wound

1

reason for being; raison d'être

1

self-conscious; self-aware

1

narrow escape from death

1

surrender

2

release (of information, documents, etc.); disclosure; display; discovery

2

guinea pig (Cavia porcellus); subject of an experiment; (human) guinea pig

1

father-in-law

1

mist; haze

8

very loose; slowly; leisurely

1

to rise (of smoke, steam, etc.); to go up

1

one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit

2

spirit photography; ghost photography

1

mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; banal

1

miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic

6

pacification; soothing

1

variables; uncertain elements; uncertainties; imponderables

1

figure of speech; rhetorical flourish

1

to project; to protrude; to pop out (e.g. eyes); to jump out; to rush out

1

to bear; to stand; to restrain; to control; to forgive; to put up with

1

inexperienced (in life experience); unsophisticated; inexperienced (in love); innocent; birth-

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