jpdb beta

every meal

1

structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance

11

fourth day of the month; four days

3

to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind

2

vision

1

to pay no heed to; to not care about; to take no notice of

2

title (e.g. Doctor, Professor, Lord); job title; position (in a company); degree; status; rank

3

overcrowding; crowded; congestion

3

common knowledge; well-known fact

1

followers; hangers-on

1

as one expects; as one wants; to one's satisfaction; as one sees fit

2

high-handed; overbearing

1

in a good mood; cheerful

3

hard-to-do; difficult; tough; awkward; tricky

1

in a sense; in some way; to an extent

4

to do in earnest; to concentrate on; to apply one's mind to

3

sink or swim; all or nothing; hit or miss; make or break

2

to probe; to search; to sound out; to investigate

2

fragment; scrap; piece; shred

5

reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre

5

(random) guess; guesswork; shot in the dark; conjecture

1

colleagues; cronies; merry men

1

not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means

1

to talk down; to corner someone in an argument

2

bluff

5

nonsense; silly talk; drivel; rubbish

8

successively; one after another

12

to trip someone up; to pull the carpet from under

1

to hurry up; to press on; to hasten

1

war of words

1

to expose; to disclose; to lay bare; to confess

5

to attract someone's attention; to arouse someone's interest; to sound someone out; to try to find out someone's true feelings; to (discreetly) probe someone's thoughts

3

decisively; decidedly; boldly; precisely; exactly

3

to graze (e.g. bullet); to scratch; to touch lightly; to take a percentage; to exploit; to squeeze

6

evidence; proof; witness

4

bluff; false show of power; bold front

3

dispersing; vanishing

14

younger; junior

1

weak-willed; lacking a purpose; lacking will power to be patient, purposeful, or resolute

2

unconditional

4

secrecy; keeping secret

1

becoming more serious or severe; aggravation; intensification

1

unguarded; frank; open

3

I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal

8

provocative; incendiary; inflammatory; suggestive; lascivious; risqué

4

bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; confusion

2

unique; matchless; unparalleled; unparallelled; never again

1

ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to

3

to follow; to come along with one; to accompany

2

to be self-complacent; to be conceited; to flatter oneself; to be full of oneself

2