jpdb beta

bitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh

1

guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper

3

passing through without stopping; passing by

1

rare

1

to relax; to feel at home

2

to yearn for; to long for; to follow (someone); to idolize (for virtue, learning, status, etc.)

1

priority; order of precedence

1

for this very reason; that is exactly why

1

to stab; to stick; to pierce; to thrust

1

silver vine (Actinidia polygama); cat powder

1

between-meal snack; mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea

8

to train; to teach; to acquire (information); to learn; to stock; to stock up on

1

madly in love; head over heels; fanatically doting; collapsed; out of spirits

2

to attract someone's attention; to arouse someone's interest; to sound someone out; to try to find out someone's true feelings; to (discreetly) probe someone's thoughts

3

(using) one's whole body; (putting in) all one's efforts; (exerting) all one's energies

1

fool; idiot; dotage; senility; touched in the head (from); out of it (from)

1

whim; caprice; fancy; capricious; fickle; whimsical

1

deep (hole, forest, snow, etc.); dense (e.g. fog); thick (e.g. weeds, woods); close (e.g. relationship); deep (involvement); intense (e.g. longing, flavor); severe

3

what is called; what you call; what they call; so-called

4

Near Threatened (conservation status); NT; New Testament; nuchal translucency

1

to be taught; to learn; to take lessons in

1

good-for-nothing; useless; worthless

1

to handle (men); to master (a tool); to manage; to acquire a command of (a language)

1

meek; quiet; docile; mysterious; marvelous; marvellous

4

expression; look; countenance; face

6

faint smile; half smile

3

devastating; gut-wrenching; shocking; startling; sensational; astounding

2

to become pale; to turn pale

1

to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate

8

observation; survey; measurement; opinion; prediction; thinking

1

to be renewed; to change; to be improved; to be reformed; to stand on ceremony; to be formal

1

to ask a question; to begin to ask a question

3

sullenly; discontentedly; silently (in a bad mood); grumpily; with hurt feelings

1

clearly; plainly; distinctly; decisively; flatly; definitely

3

thunderstruck; hit by a thunderbolt; struck by lightning

1

dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

2

course correction; trajectory change; orbital adjustment

1

to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to

8

concerning ...; over ...; about ...; centering on ...

1

to act (a part); to play (a role); to perform (a play, etc.); to put on (a production); to commit (e.g. a blunder); to disgrace oneself

2

to decide; to determine; to resolve; to break and overflow (e.g. levee); to collapse; to give way

2

adds vagueness and indirectness to the word or phrase it is used with

1

main topic; main subject; main issue; this subject

1

to twine (fibers to make rope); to twist

2

to interrupt; to obstruct (a view, someone's way, etc.); to block (light, wind, etc.); to intercept; to cut off

3

loud; sonorous; ringing

3

to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on

4

similar to; like

1

insight; power of observation

1

belly; abdomen; stomach

4