jpdb beta

curious; strange; unusual

1

restlessly; nervously; uneasily; in a fidget

1

performance; execution; skill; dexterity; tact

1

physical work; manual labour (labor)

2

only; nothing but

21

sale; selling; selling point; gimmick; seller; vendor

1

to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate

3

to mind; to care about; to be an issue; to matter; to keep company; to care for; to interfere with

4

anyhow; in any case; at any rate; at best; at most

4

you; my dear; hey

13

cannibalism; anthropophagism

1

bad feeling; feeling bad; disagreeable; unpleasant; revolting; gross

3

to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter

1

poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite

1

bull's-eye; the mark

1

pointing out; identification

1

to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around

3

to sit down

2

to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach

1

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

5

to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)

5

place; situation; position; location

2

to compare with the eye

1

extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness

1

to say; to be pleased to say

1

much less; to say nothing of

1

to ward off (e.g. an attack); to fend off (e.g. a question); to elude; to evade; to dodge; to turn aside (e.g. a joke)

2

one's face turning pale (ashen); the color being drained from one's face

1

cold sweat

1

to dribble; to spill; to suspend; to hang down; to slouch

2

to put up with; to endure; to bear patiently

1

withering; shrivelling; shrinking; atrophy; contraction

1

before long; even now

4

to make a fist; to clench one's fist

2

to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to

2

to fall in love

2

strangeness; abnormality; disorder

4

saint; holy woman

5

hawk; falcon

1

is that so? (generally rhetorical)

8

manservant

13

exception

1

just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that

2

to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate

3

to collude (with); to conspire (with); to make friends with; to get along well with; to become intimate (with opposite sex); to establish a secret liaison (with)

1

profitable plan; good plan

1

demand for; request

1

to keep away; to keep at a distance

1

promptly; immediately; quickly; indifferently

3

preliminary arrangements; spade work

1