jpdb beta

professor; teaching; instruction

1

treatment; reception; service; working conditions; salary; pay

1

bodyguard; bouncer; bar (e.g. on a door); bolt; stick or pole used for self-defence

1

decorations; offerings; mere window dressing

1

post; official position; managerial position; executive position

2

salary; wages; pay

1

university (college) professor

1

travel; trip; journey

1

studio apartment; studio flat

1

crowded; packed; crammed; cramped; filled; overflowing

1

book; volume

3

literature; books (reference); document

3

to sprawl; to lie sprawled; to stretch oneself out; to lie relaxed on one's side

1

to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop

1

staying up all night

1

corner; nook; shade; shadow; dark circles (under the eyes); dark rings

1

to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)

8

to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously

3

third day of the month; three days

2

to get sleep; to sleep

1

arrowhead; target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack); the very moment (when); the point (of doing)

1

vigorously; with great force; energetically; enthusiastically; with spirit

1

knock; knocking; fungo hitting; hitting balls for fielding practice

1

English-language newspaper

1

expression; looks

1

holiday; day off; sleep; rest; Good night

1

to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend

2

forelock; bangs

1

to comb upwards; to brush up (a loose strand of hair); to turn up a lamp wick

1

newspaper

1

article; news story; report; account

1

to scrutinize; to scrutinise

1

space on a page (e.g. in a newspaper); surface of paper; letter; writings

1

publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story); running (e.g. a serial); insertion (e.g. of an advertisement); printing; posting (e.g. on the web)

1

to be lacking in options; to be too few

1

to make a serious effort

1

you could say; you might say; verging on the

1

fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized

1

not only ... but also; in addition to; consequently

1

population of a fief

8

to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of

1

performer

1

dozens; scores of; decades

5

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

2

to arrange (flowers); to plant; living; live

2

(arch.) offering (to the gods, emperor, etc.); gift; sacrifice

1

heartlessness; hardness of heart; coldheartedness; insentient; inanimate

1

to govern; to manage; to subdue

1

throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

1

ancestral; hereditary; generation after generation; passing from father to son

1