jpdb beta

gap; space; break; interlude; chink (in one's armor, armour); chance

1

lightly; nimbly; with agility; casually; readily; regularly

1

shout; cry; outcry; yell; shriek; scream

1

easy; simple; plain

2

storm and stress; Sturm und Drang

1

look (esp. an angry or upset look); expression

1

to be hot on a person's heels

1

horseback; riding

1

to bind (a criminal) with rope; to arrest; to seize; to bind (something) with rope

1

Western (film genre)

2

smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)

1

shameful; disgraceful; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming; improper

3

suspicious person

1

nothing but; nothing more than; nothing less than

1

(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling

1

calmness; composure; presence of mind; stability; steadiness

2

no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about

1

shopper; customer

1

shoplifting; shoplifter

1

to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect

3

total situation fully understood; understood; agreed

1

faint smile

1

to tear off; to pluck; to scratch off

1

fainting in agony

1

further; above; anymore

1

all eyes; public attention

1

to become blunt; to grow dull; to become less capable; to weaken; to falter

1

to go ahead; to pull ahead

1

self-deprecating; self-mocking

1

with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names

2

to draw close to; to edge up to; to snuggle up to; to nestle close to; to cuddle with; to draw closer to

3

seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of

1

forever; in perpetuity

2

shame; embarrassment; disgrace

1

to keep up (appearances); to smooth over (an error, etc.); to gloss over; to mend; to repair

2

to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size

2

training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices

1

I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable; I feel regretful; thank you very much (for help, etc.)

2

abandoning (hope, plans); giving up

1

to withdraw; to leave; to retire; to back down; to give up

1

recovery; undoing; recall

1

leisurely; slow; deliberate; easygoing

1

south

6

totteringly; trudgingly

1

miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic

2

to glide; to slide (e.g. on skis); to fail (an examination); to bomb (when telling a joke); to drop; to go down

1

to walk away; to saunter off

1

north; the North; northern territories; North Korea; (arch.) north wind

3

drum

1

one's way; one's path

1