jpdb beta

to approach (one's) death; to face (one's) death

1

lending; loaning

3

upper limit; supremum

1

to treat; to handle; to deal with; to arrange; to decorate; to dress

3

return of something; repayment

1

patience; endurance

1

behind one's back

2

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

1

to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference

2

unflaggingly; steadily; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking

1

to have something on one's mind; to have (undisclosed) reservations; to feel conflicted

2

patient; unhurried; leisurely

2

to accuse someone falsely; to make a false charge

1

fruitless effort; wasted effort; abortive scheme; futility

1

feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection

6

to read thoroughly; to read repeatedly; to express (e.g. emotion in poetry); to read (extra meaning) into (something); to fetch (e.g. CPU inst.); to read (data into a system)

1

speed reading

1

hard to read

4

short break; breather

1

recent state; present state; present condition; current status; current circumstances

4

tariff; tax rate

1

difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

8

awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely

6

poetic

8

to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known

2

influential; powerful; popular; prosperous; doing well

1

someone (unspecified, but someone in particular); a certain person

2

to return; to come back

1

(what) one is trying to say; (what) one wants to say; (what) one is saying; (what) one means

1

consequence; causal relationship; nexus

1

omission; abbreviation; abridgment; abridgement

2

to take lessons in; to be taught; to learn (from a teacher); to study (under a teacher); to get training in

2

basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation

4

to make a false accusation

1

to read and understand; to subject to close analysis; to read deeply; to decipher; to decode

6

west

3

vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology

1

to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)

2

to add (one thing to another); to add (a few more words, an explanation, etc.)

1

to imitate; to follow; to emulate

2

deciphering; decoding

1

to puzzle over; to think deeply about; to rack one's brains over (wrack)

1

matter to be checked or investigated

1

noise

1

class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate

1

glance; look; glimpse; complete view; bird's-eye view

1

list; table; schedule; catalogue; catalog

1

scramble; struggle

1

to make up the number; to have a complete set of

2

handwriting; handwritten; hand-painted; hand-drawn

6