jpdb beta

to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble

1

to forge; to temper; to drill; to train; to discipline

1

slaughter (of animals for meat); butchery

1

absurd; ridiculous; silly; ludicrous; nonsensical; asinine

1

wild idea; delusion

1

to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in

1

to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses

1

noon; midday

1

four

8

to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to go down (sun); to wane; to sink

1

due east

1

grassy field; grassland; meadow; grass-covered plain; savannah; prairie

1

damp ground; wetland; bog; marsh

1

march; marching

1

surprise attack

1

night; nighttime

1

forced march; (fig.) doing something on a very strict schedule

1

to cross; to go across; to go through; to cut across

1

whole army; whole team; all armies; all teams

2

to call; to summon; to send for; to call together

1

duty; function; office; mission; task

6

accomplishment; execution

1

concealment; hiding; ambush; incubation; latency; dormancy

4

spy; agent provocateur; covert operative; maker; builder; constructor

1

collecting; accumulating; collection (of art, stamps, insects, etc.); garbage collection; waste collection

3

glancing (look)

1

to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess

1

a few people; small number of people

1

relief; rescue

2

arrangements; plan; programme; program; preparations

1

decision; agreement

1

to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)

3

careless

1

to declare; to speak out; to warn; to spit out (words)

1

to be inclined to do; to be willing to do

1

bare minimum; minimum necessary (amount, number, etc.)

1

wounded person; injured person

1

covert action; covert operations

1

to look (stare) back at (somebody); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to look back (behind oneself)

1

hard to read

1

to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up

2

to depart (on a plane, train, etc.)

1

the point just before; the point of doing; the verge of happening

1

discontent; dissatisfaction; complaint; grievance

1

leaving somebody behind; abandoning someone; marooning someone

1

by myself; in person; by oneself

1

contradiction; inconsistency

1

cutting in two with a single stroke; taking decisive action; dealing with decisively; cutting the (Gordian) knot

1

anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside

1

to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside

2