jpdb beta

round; circular; curved; smooth; harmonious; calm

1

being amazed; being horrified; being taken aback

1

to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon

3

one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month

1

thin veneer; hasty preparation; knowledge or skill learned as a stopgap; re-tempering a dull sword (so that it looks as if it's sharp, but is actually unusable)

1

after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means

1

plating (chrome, gold, silver, etc.); coating; gilding; pretense; pretence; simulation

1

to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off

1

useful thing; usable article

1

desperately; for one's dear life

1

sign; indication; omen; symptom

1

to give one's everything; to make one's best effort; to be enthused; to put your back into it

1

short way; shortcut

1

this much; this amount

2

will; desire; ambition; urge (e.g. creative urge)

1

sabot; wooden shoe; work-to-rule; go-slow strike; slowdown

1

penalty

1

practice kit; practice board; practice partner; training partner

1

invitation; solicitation; canvassing; canvasing; inducement; persuasion

6

to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate

2

March; third month of the lunar calendar

3

first 10 days of the month

1

final exam; term-end examination; end-of-term examination

2

towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic)

3

to concern; to be related

1

cancellation (of a lecture, class, etc.)

1

within a school

1

sign of life; human presence; humanity; humaneness

1

sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic

1

English teacher

1

drawing up (e.g. legal document, contract, will, etc.); preparing; writing; framing; making; producing

1

question sheet; question paper

1

staff room

2

safe; strongbox; cashbox; depository; cash office; treasury

1

to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on

1

leaving early

1

procedure; process; proceedings; formalities

1

to stop by; to drop in for a short visit

1

new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)

1

lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

1

multi-tenant building; building containing a mixture of businesses, shops and residential apartments

2

piece of paper; slip of paper; strip of paper; scrap of paper

3

groan; moan; roar; growl; buzz; hum (e.g. motor)

1

blank form; sheets of paper; sheet of paper

3

under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side

5

to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter

1

bar graph; bar chart

1

to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember

1

unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all

2

sunglasses

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