jpdb beta

ceremony; rite; ritual; service

28

assistance; help; aid; support; reinforcement

1

refreshing; exhilarating; invigorating; bracing

1

woman's heart; female instincts or psychology

1

one's eyes; (pair of) eyes

1

stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; hammy (acting); over-the-top; clumsy

1

training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices

1

strong nation; powerful country

1

was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...

1

to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over

1

to class (one thing with another); to rank (with); to respect (two things) the same; to see as comparable; to hold in equally high esteem

1

best; greatest; first

1

military force; military strength

1

famous; well-known; renowned; your name

1

soldier; combatant; warrior

2

producing (people) in great numbers; appearing one after the other

1

active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try

1

hero; the brave; man of valour (valor)

4

Saint; St.; S.; sacred; holy; pure

1

competition; contest

1

to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on

2

seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be

1

Mr; Mrs; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation

3

one-to-one; one-on-one

1

to guess; to conjecture; to surmise

1

impossible

1

class

1

downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction

1

to do something distinguished; to perform great deeds; to distinguish oneself (e.g. in war)

1

to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)

1

to send; to direct; to dispatch (person, car, etc.); to direct (attention); to turn (spotlight, etc. on)

1

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

1

daring; fearless; intrepid; bold; tough

2

participation; joining; entry

2

should do; ought to do

1

to save trouble; to save effort; to save hassle; to save bother; to save time

1

to divide; to separate; to partition; to punctuate; to mark off (with a comma); to insert pauses (between words or phrases when reading aloud)

1

in order; in turn; one by one

1

to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of

1

painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)

1

again; once again; yet again

2

to claim victims; to leave casualties

1

end; conclusion; last; final; once ...; the moment ... (, that's it)

5

means; method

1

idea; notion; sense (e.g. of duty); resignation (to one's fate); acceptance; observation and contemplation

1

honest to a fault; foolishly honest; naively honest

1

to take by surprise

1

secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings

4

person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff

2

to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of

1