jpdb beta

seminar

1

wildly enthusiastic; crazy (about something)

1

single woman; spinster

2

single mother

1

founder of a religious sect

1

at the time; in those days; then

1

to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated

11

bright; intelligent; clever; smart

1

business ability; business acumen

2

distance; difference; gap; disparity; gulf; chasm

1

to appear uneasy; to appear anxious

1

company employee; member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)

1

company president; manager; director

2

company fortunes; future of a company

1

solidly built person

1

to hold still; to hold in place; to calm down; to become steady (e.g. of nerves); to become fixed (e.g. of a gaze); to become glazed

1

to live up to expectations; to meet expectations

2

to lean against; to recline on; to lean on; to rely on; to depend on

6

to guess right

2

to wrap up

2

standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability

2

incarnation of selfishness; lump of avarice

1

slave; servant; slavery

1

alms-giving; charity; offerings (usu. money) to a priest (for reading sutras, etc.); financially supporting one's favorite celebrity (by buying merchandise, attending events, etc.)

2

to do exactly what one is told to do; to be subservient; to be easily controlled

3

to incur the wrath of the gods (e.g. by doing something immoral); to incur divine punishment; to pay for one's sins

1

slap; smack; spanking

3

brainwashing

2

to settle (in a place); to settle down

4

to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)

2

food; foodstuff; prey; victim

2

appalling; horrifying; dreadful; hideous; revolting; disgusting

13

to run out of; to dry up; to be depleted; to hit the bottom; to bottom out

1

(corporate) bankruptcy; insolvency; commercial failure; failed business

1

(moment of) departure; (upon) leaving; retirement

1

right to decide; having say (in a decision)

1

abandonment; renouncement; renunciation; resignation; abdication; surrender

1

to abandon; to give up on; to desert

1

to be disgusted with; to run out of patience; to fall out of love

4

dependence; reliance

2

to induce (someone to do something); to tempt; to act toward (someone in a certain way); to handle (men); to send; to forward to

8

criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach

1

old hag; old woman; old bat

1

fourteen; 14

1

rush; dash; charge

1

plosive sound

2

to burn completely; to consume (by fire); to burn to nothing; to burn to the ground; to reduce to ashes

2

host; landlord; innkeeper

1

to beat; to attack (an enemy); to do away with; to finish off

1

ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound

1