jpdb beta

wild animal

1

several steps

2

analysis

2

to get up (e.g. from bed); to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life

2

starlight

2

boundary; border; limit; bounds; frontier

1

to shake one's head (in denial)

1

challenging; defiant; provocative; aggressive

1

jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)

4

to conceal; to hide

1

to surprise; to frighten; to create a stir

1

skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid

2

walk

2

expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture

7

to use tact; to exercise discretion; to be tactful; to be thoughtful; to have the sense (to do); to take a hint

1

to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in

4

difficult to ...; hard to ...

2

irritation; annoyance; frustration

3

because of; owing to; due to

1

in the dark

1

to smile (at); to grin (at)

1

careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent

2

almost; roughly; approximately

6

to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous

2

to fall behind; to lag behind; to lose (race, contest)

2

unfathomable; inestimable; immeasurable

1

compensation; indemnification; reparation; consideration

1

to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)

6

properly; accurately; exactly; neatly; tidily; orderly

3

tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation

3

certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons

1

to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach

4

tactics

1

to become serious; to take something seriously (joke, teasing); to become irritated or angry (usu. at something trivial); to get worked up

1

to correct oneself; to restate

3

absorption; suction; attraction

1

danger; Chinese "rooftop" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

1

young; youthful

1

thin; skinny; delicate; fragile; feeble

1

to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

1

tough; strong; stiff; tenacious

2

far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention

3

brittle; fragile; weak; tender-hearted; sentimental; easily moved

2

old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

1

machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus

2

to creak; to squeak; to grate; to grind; to rasp

1

threat; menace; coercion; terrorism

1

guard; convoy; escort

1

cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation

3

to thrust down; to push off

2