jpdb beta

contacting; getting in touch; communication; call; message

1

invasion

3

military forces; hosts; troops

8

10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various

6

to reach; to get to; to arrive at

1

what did you just say (to me)?; what's that?

3

in the same way as; just like

1

to hurry; to rush

1

lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate

2

anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly

5

to paint over; to paint out; to fill in; to cover completely (with paint)

2

pardon me for leaving (first)

1

oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!

1

jet black

1

finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)

8

war preparation

1

one's own army; one's own team

8

alone; unaided; away from home

3

to kill (with a weapon); to defeat an opponent; to get someone out; to arrest; to take prisoner

1

collision; clashing

1

keep ...-ing; have been ...-ing; leaving (something) on; leaving (something) still in use

1

that sort of; like that

1

to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)

1

parched; dried-up; empty; hollow; rattling; clattering

1

it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...

1

isolation; separation; remoteness; seclusion; reclusion; inaccessibility

1

ignorant of the ways of the world

1

in those days

2

organization; organisation; structure; construction; system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.); tissue; texture (of a rock)

1

old regime

6

clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect

6

capitulation; surrender; submission; yield

2

young; youthful

1

to offer; to propose; to suggest; to put forward; to request; to ask (for)

1

to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid

7

to step back; to move back; to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to resign; to retire

8

bizarre plan; perplexing strategy; outlandish scheme

3

same number

1

to meet (the enemy) and attack; to engage (the approaching enemy); to confront; to intercept

1

300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster

3

weather; the elements; fair weather; fine weather

1

to slaughter; to massacre; to butcher; to defeat soundly; to overpower; to vanquish

2

to bare one's fangs; to snarl (at)

1

battle formation; disposition of troops

1

to hang over; to shroud; to enshroud; to envelop; to screen

1

fog; mist; spray

2

by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking

8

deep (colour); dark; strong (flavour, smell, etc.); thick (consistency); dense; strong (possibility, etc.)

1

plain; open field

1

to go ahead; to pull ahead

2