jpdb beta

contagion; infection

4

to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate

1

devastating; catastrophic; crushing

1

prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier

1

to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)

1

agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning

1

cage; pen; (jail) cell

1

to save trouble; to save effort; to save hassle; to save bother; to save time

1

great help

1

absurdity; contradiction; incoherence; irrelevance

1

to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to let live; to keep alive; to revive; to resuscitate

3

remnants; survivors; refugees; pocket (of resistance)

1

not knowing when to let go (give up, etc.); unwilling to resign; having lingering attachment; regretful

3

to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)

1

use of force

1

give-and-take; give and take

1

massacre; annihilation; wholesale slaughter

3

real intention; true motive; true meaning

2

see; you see; ha

1

unshapely; unsightly; clumsy; unpresentable; uncouth; awkward

2

pure; true; genuine; unmixed

4

measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy

2

self-indulgence; doing as one pleases

2

to lie on top of each other; to overlap; to pile up

3

Schrödinger's cat

1

shift the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); pass the buck

1

ballot; vote

4

indicates means of action; cause of effect; by

4

senility; senile decay; infirmity (through age)

2

very cheesy; very flashy; extremely gaudy

1

rebellious; defiant

1

severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous

3

unanimity

2

people; (all) persons; you (usu. plural); various

3

big-shot; influential person; happy face; smiling face; sympathetic attitude; getting along with

1

erosion; corrosion

1

fatal; deadly; mortal

1

obstinate; stubborn; headstrong

2

intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy

9

thorny path

1

to be of no concern to one; to be nothing to do with one

1

to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed

2

rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction

1

bed; berth; crib; cot; kip; bedroom

1

to come from; to have roots in

1

pollution; contamination

1

related (by blood); blood-related; of the same blood

1

(outward) looks; features; face; countenance; expression

1

to come loose; to come untied; to come undone; to loosen up (e.g. tension)

2

that is to say; so that means

1