jpdb beta

aah!; ooh!; oh no!; oh boy!

1

surely; certainly

24

textbook; coursebook; schoolbook

1

to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded

1

country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)

1

military commander

1

habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle

1

and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not

2

hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking

1

any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand

2

trivia

1

treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like

2

modern person; people of today

1

snack; light meal; snack bar (usu. an establishment that serves alcohol); snack food (esp. potato chips, popcorn, etc.); munchie

1

consumption; expenditure

1

to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled

1

to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up

9

toilet; restroom; bathroom; lavatory

1

evening; night; dinner

1

to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)

2

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

1

place; spot; field; discipline; occasion; situation; scene (of a play, movie, etc.)

9

tongue; tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)

1

to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)

2

(not) at all; (not) in the slightest; wholly; entirely; extremely; very

4

follow; following (on social media, esp. Twitter); follow-up; following up; backing-up; covering for; follow-up shot

3

never mind that; don't worry about that; listen up

4

to continue; to keep up; to keep on

13

dizziness (from standing up too fast); orthostatic syncope; lightheadedness; vertigo

1

while; even though; despite

14

continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence

1

to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken

2

yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof

6

urgency; emergency

3

correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications

6

pinch; crisis; tough spot; clothespin

2

to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember

62

circuit; line

2

distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion

8

independence; self-reliance; independence (e.g. of a nation); freedom; separation; isolation

2

crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch

1

only; nothing but

13

point in time; occasion

6

(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of

6

information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.

26

joint ownership; co-ownership; sharing (e.g. a viewpoint); sharing (files, devices on a network, posts on social media, etc.)

1

action of making something; -ification

22

unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to

2

resource

1

to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote

1