jpdb beta

accomplice; henchman

1

meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up

4

to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky

3

tide; current; tendency; trend

2

poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious

4

to go through; to pierce; to run through (e.g. a river through a city); to pass through; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out

2

to encourage; to cheer; to raise (the voice)

2

frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed

1

to overflow; to brim over; to flood

1

to go back to the start; to reset; to restore; to return to the point (of a discussion); to return something (that has been moved) to previous place; to reconstitute

1

to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire

4

Mark Twain

1

(diving) fin; swim fin; flipper; fin (on a surfboard, aircraft, etc.)

1

adventure; venture; venture which is unlikely to succeed; risky attempt; danger

1

masterpiece

1

new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date

4

naughty; mischievous; unruly

1

polish; improvement; burnishing

1

to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend

7

frequent; incessant

1

discriminatory; discriminative

1

junior high school student; middle school pupil

2

Tolstoy; Tolstoi

2

Dostoevskii; Dostoyevskii

3

uneasy; unsure; unreliable; untrustworthy; (arch.) nervous; (arch.) impatient

2

reading ability

1

classic (work, esp. book); the classics

2

Natsume Souseki (1867-1916)

1

summer vacation; summer holiday

1

homework; assignment; pending issue; unresolved problem; open question

1

wasteful; a waste; too good; more than one deserves; impious; profane

1

to resort to violence; to use force; to be able to get; to be able to afford; to jab; to swing at a bad ball (baseball)

1

aliteracy; loss of interest in or shift away from reading (especially serious) books or literature

1

mobile telephone; cellular telephone

2

train; electric train

2

money

5

telephone bill; telephone rate

1

10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various

3

money for books

1

to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)

1

cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga

3

sales; demand

1

unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all

3

telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone

5

limits; end; bounds

1

coherence; order; focus; point

1

chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox

2

habit; (social) custom; practice; convention

2

(powers of) concentration; ability to concentrate

3

certain; sure; definite; reliable; sound; solid

3