jpdb beta

awareness of things around one; ability to understand what is going on around oneself; judgment; judgement; discretion

1

to crouch; to stoop; to yield; to submit; to hide; to conceal oneself

1

truly; in earnest

2

to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe

5

(a) weakness; shortcoming; failing; sore point

1

sickbed; (hospital) bed

1

waste of time; killing time

1

to have an interest (in)

2

Briton; Englishman; (the) English

1

novelist; fiction writer

1

to say; to be called; to do

3

to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

6

assistance; aid; support

1

connection; link; relationship

1

to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

11

to dress stylishly; to joke; to play on words

1

eccentric; crank; oddball

7

fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity

1

telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone

6

anonymous scholarship system for orphans whose parents have been killed in traffic accidents (from Daddy-Long-Legs, a 1912 novel by Jean Webster); harvestman; daddy longlegs (arachnid of order Opiliones)

1

wearing one's hair in braids

1

black rim; black edge

1

glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles; judgment; judgement; discrimination

4

dark-natured; gloomy; dour; moody; insular; glum

5

uncool; unsophisticated; unfashionable; out of fashion; tacky

2

plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit

1

to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal

12

breadwinner; biggest earner

1

to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back

3

at first; initially; in the beginning

1

when; at what time; how soon; normal times; ordinary days

6

monotony; monotone; dullness; monotone; monotonic

1

to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something

2

obsession; unreasonable but compulsive idea

1

compelling force; legal force

1

absolute

2

before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing

3

coward

3

it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...

6

invitation; introduction; temptation

3

to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)

1

character (of a person); personality; disposition; characteristics; nature (of a thing, event, etc.)

3

to stand up; to get up; to rise; to recover; to take action; to start; to make the initial charge

4

pose; pause

10

right hand; right-hand side; right-hand direction; (on) the right

18

to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)

4

waist

1

emphasis; highlight; stress; stressed point

3

nude model

2

or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean

2