jpdb beta

grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude

2

story; tale; talk; discussion

2

pupil; student; schoolchild

1

to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned

2

(swimming) pool; pool (billiards); pool (together)

1

peers; friends; fellow workers; comrades

1

to take (someone) with one; to bring along; to go with; to be accompanied by

5

town; block; downtown; main street; street; road

1

to play (games, sports); to enjoy oneself; to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.); to be idle; to do nothing; to meet up (with friends); to hang out

2

to disappear (of people or animals); to go (away); to leave; to no longer exist

1

clanging; empty; deserted

1

to stay behind; to remain; to work overtime

1

this morning

3

concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every

1

to discuss; to talk together

1

pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says

1

by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking

1

source of information; intelligence source; message source

1

to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)

1

New York

1

exchange market

1

period of time; time slot; time zone

1

outline; main points; generally; on the whole; general; rough

3

early morning

1

past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)

2

dead of night; midnight

1

dream

1

waterfall; (arch.) rapids

1

to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start

6

afterwards

3

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

5

start

3

custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example

2

check; plaid; checking; monitoring; check (banking); cheque

8

then; and then; and; if so; because then; if that's the case

5

occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally

1

human-interest article; page-three news; police news

1

to catch one's attention

3

skim reading; diagonal reading (e.g. as a simple code)

1

oh!; oh?; my!

3

printing type; movable type; printed text; print

1

end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap

1

to be infected; to be contagious

1

to reread; to read again

2

astonished; stunned; startled out of one's wits; thunderstruck; open-eyed astonishment

3

hey!; wait a minute!; whoa!; boohoo; waaaa

2

march; parade

1

possibly; maybe; perhaps

1

to resemble; to look like; to be like; to be alike; to be similar; to take after

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as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively

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