jpdb beta

good person; virtuous person

1

query; interrogation; enquiry; question; inquiry

1

preface; introduction; preamble

2

bright; intelligent

1

to communicate

2

event

1

push; pushing; weight; pressure; authority; forcefulness

1

violent

2

apprehensions; misgivings; uneasiness; anxiety; fear

1

(with a) click (e.g. camera shutter); (with a) snap

1

to snap one's fingers; to pop one's fingers; to crack one's knuckles

2

ultimate

1

disadvantage; drawback; demerit; bad point; minus

3

to compare and contrast two alternatives; to weigh the relative merits of A and B; to weigh one's options; to try to have it both ways; to try to sit on two stools

1

speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)

1

devastating; gut-wrenching; shocking; startling; sensational; astounding

1

way of speaking; intimation

1

to make good one's escape; to escape to a safe place; to make one's getaway; to effect one's escape

1

base (of a plant, tree, pillar, etc.); (part near the) root; roots (of one's hair); root (e.g. of a problem); source

1

evil deed; wrongdoing; crime; misfortune; calamity

1

support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy

1

discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment

1

to creep up; to crawl up; to overcome (a bad situation); to rise (after a setback)

1

constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone

1

failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy

1

to bend; to turn up; to turn down; to double

1

sports ground; playing field; playground

17

dawn; daybreak

2

mezzanine floor

1

safety zone; traffic island

1

simple and clear; plain and simple

1

trick

1

obvious; transparent

1

unidentified flying object; UFO

1

big problem

1

land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap

1

to grow restive; to begin to act violently

1

emotional instability

1

to look on enviously while doing nothing; (lit.) to hold a finger in one's mouth

1

amount of material resources

4

to hang down (from); to dangle; to be within one's reach; to dangle (before one's eyes); to be completely reliant on; to be entirely dependent on

3

to let go of; to release; to part with (e.g. a possession); to relinquish; to send away (e.g. one's child); to let go

1

to have no chance (of succeeding)

2

degree of accuracy

1

to take advantage (of somebody's weaknesses, carelessness, etc.); to impose on

1

I pray; I wish

1

grim look

1

semi-; quasi-; associate

1

at most; at best

1

to synchronise the breathing with the opponent prior to the start of a match

1