jpdb beta

lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring

2

tempering (metal); annealing; forging; toughening; disciplining; training

1

new discovery; new invention

1

one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation

1

I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ...

1

to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet

5

rower; oarsman

1

unemployment; losing one's job; becoming unemployed

1

society; public; community; social studies

2

locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind

1

giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange

1

to divert; to distract

1

splish-splash; glug-glug

1

to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard

1

tedium; boredom; dullness; to feel bored; to get bored with; to get tired of

2

to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough

2

nodding off (while sitting); dozing

1

to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing

1

loose; slack; gentle (slope, curve); slow (speed); lenient; liberal

1

lightly and smoothly (of movements); swiftly; glidingly; (progressing) smoothly; (solving) easily

1

pull; patronage; tug; discount

1

condition; state; health; state (of health); way; manner

1

passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit

2

to jump up to one's feet

2

to strike against; to collide with; to encounter; to meet; to clash

3

to stagger; to stumble

6

to pull down

1

underwater

4

reflection; reverberation; reflex; reflexes

1

sea or river bottom

1

to jump (out of the way); to jump back; to jump aside

1

atrocious; fiendish; brutal; villainous

1

row of teeth

1

to crowd together in a confined space; to gather and make a commotion

1

to swim around

1

crash into; clash

4

to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum

2

almost; very nearly; only just; barely; just in time

1

abundant; plentiful; rich; ample

2

nursery; (breeding) farm

1

area; domain; territory; field; range; region

3

feeling good; feeling at ease; feeling easy

1

wow!; oh!; yeah!; alright!; waah!; boohoo!

1

rear-end collision

1

to go pale; to grow pale; to lose color; to turn white

1

grilled fish

1

lightning; thunder; god of thunder; god of lightning; anger; fit of anger

2

to go along; to walk along; to follow

1

to rush on; to attack; to swoop down on

3

burying alive

1