jpdb beta

scale

2

circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances

4

memory; sense; experience

1

omen; portent; sign; presage; harbinger; premonition

1

disquieting; threatening; turbulent; restless; unsettled; disturbing

2

to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)

1

to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)

3

to interrupt; to interfere; to meddle; to intrude; to butt in; to poke one's nose into

1

honor; honour; prestige; dignity; honorary (e.g. president, doctorate)

1

cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)

6

to lend an ear to; to listen to

1

impatience; irritation; frustration; fretfulness

2

participation; joining; entry

3

at a disadvantage; in an unfavourable position; having poor prospects; standing little chance

3

to reach out one's hand; to extend one's arm; to get involved in; to embark on; to start a fight; to get physical with

2

rash; thoughtless; imprudent; careless; frivolous

1

to settle; to finish; to bring to an end

1

gale; strong wind; swift wind; fresh breeze (Beaufort scale)

6

wave motion; undulation; surge; wave

2

one-by-one; separately; in detail

5

sharp; keen; acute

3

atrocious; heinous; fiendish; brutal; vicious

1

hollow; mid-air; air; sky

1

to run at full speed; to run and run; to try one's hardest

1

to shoot through (a wall, the heart, etc.); to go through; to pierce; to hit (e.g. the bull's-eye)

2

lightning; thunder; god of thunder; god of lightning; anger; fit of anger

1

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

4

straight line

1

to run; to run (of a vehicle); to drive; to rush (to); to dash; to retreat; to flee

4

to be crushed; to be squashed; to go bankrupt; to go under; to be ruined (of a plan); to be cancelled; to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.)

2

tough; strong; tenacious

1

physical strength; muscular strength

2

to throw violently against; to slam against; to strike; to thrust at someone (e.g. a letter)

4

living thing; organism; creature; biology

3

to give one's first cry (of a newborn baby); to be born; to come into being; to be formed

2

echo; reverberation; response; reaction; repercussions

1

lump of earth; clod

5

(surprise) attack; assault; raid; charge

9

trivial; trifling; slight; insignificant

1

nonchalant; unconcerned; in a casual manner

1

mere child's play

1

to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with; to toy with (another's emotions, etc.); to trifle with; to do with something as one pleases; to appreciate

2

easily; readily; with ease; without trouble

2

to slide; to glide; to slip; to skid; to be slippery; to fail (an examination); to lose (a position)

2

gust; gale

1

to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into

2

tyranny; atrocity

2

limit; limits; degree; extent; the end; the last; as long as ...

3

to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely

1

(so marvelous or horrible that it may be) the first and probably the last

1