jpdb beta

salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold

1

to cook; to heat

4

to start eating

1

password; watchword; motto; slogan

1

you; hubby; dearie

2

on bargain sale; rising in popularity; up-and-coming; budding

1

the other day; lately; recently

1

dramatic turn-around; major reversal; great comeback; game changer

1

leading actor; star; leading figure; central figure; key figure

2

to cheat (someone out of); to swindle; to wangle; to wheedle; to get

1

successor

1

to make one's name well known; to gain much fame

1

severe wound; serious wound; gash

3

absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; neglecting (e.g. one's studies); leaving unattended

4

boyfriend; male friend

1

this place; where one comes from; here

1

dark side (of nature, town, etc.)

1

not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work

1

fair attack; fair tactics; straightforward approach; standard procedure; established method

1

clique; faction

1

injury; wound

4

quarrel; dispute

1

to push aside; to push one's way through

2

sister (sibling); (Catholic) sister; sister (female partner in a homosexual relationship)

6

representative; delegate

1

housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker

1

visit (to someone affected by illness or misfortune); call; letter of inquiry; letter of sympathy; dealing (a hit); striking (a blow)

3

unfair; unjust; wrongful; improper; unreasonable; unwarranted

2

to cast a shadow; to appear; to loom (of a threat, etc.); to manifest (of symptoms, etc.)

1

desperate; frantic; excited; worked up; heated; eager

1

younger; junior

3

vegetable garden

1

whenever you want; any time you like

1

seeing off and meeting on return

4

to do without being seen (by); to do behind (someone's) back; to do without the knowledge of (e.g. one's parents)

1

seeing someone off and later welcoming them back; taking someone to and fro

1

enemy territory; hostile place

1

(place) right in the center; dead center; dead centre; exact middle; heart

2

to send (a person or thing) to; to deliver; to escort

2

vanishing behind the clouds (e.g. of the moon); vanishing; suddenly disappearing; going into hiding

2

subordinate; underling; henchman; minion

5

for a long time; since long ago; always; already; far in advance (e.g. reservation)

2

sense of being the chosen people

1

results; record; grades; marks

3

(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

2

brainwashing

1

cruel; inhumane; callous; brutal

1

parent-child relationship

1

politics; political manoeuvre; political maneuver

1

resentment; grudge; malice; matter for regret; regret

2