jpdb beta

rate; ratio; proportion; percentage

1

desperately; for one's dear life

3

beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially

3

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

2

adverse circumstances; adversity

1

to be a quick worker; to be fast in forming relationships with women; to be quick to resort to violence

1

you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs; you can't solve a problem without making some sacrifice

1

to wash away; to rinse off

3

evening deepens into night; the night wears on; night advances

2

balcony; veranda; verandah; porch

1

to sidle up to

1

to knock down; to beat up (till unable to stand)

3

to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem

5

to hang over; to cover; to fall upon someone (responsibility, burden, pressure, etc.)

1

indicates concession or compromise; indicates permission

1

to decide; to determine

4

to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block

1

not knowing when to give up; being a bad loser

1

bad temper; bad mood

2

to stop; to quit; to put an end to

1

shut up!; be quiet!

11

longevity; long life

7

habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle

4

feeling of tension; air of tension; tension; nervousness

1

I don't need it; I don't want it

1

tremendous; immense

3

trust

1

simply (cannot); definitely (cannot); absolutely (cannot); by no means

4

unusually (compared to a typical year)

1

hard education; hard training; Spartan education

1

old-fashioned; behind the times; out-of-date; antiquated

2

living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet

2

yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?

2

greater than ...; bigger ...

1

arguments for and against; pros and cons; mixed reception; mixed reviews

1

with a bang (clash, bump)

1

passenger seat; assistant driver's seat

1

national highway

1

at last; finally; barely; narrowly; yo-ho!; heave-ho!

1

lake

2

puddle; pool of water

2

to compose a poem

1

to take aim (at); to set one's sights (on); to zero in (on)

1

toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything

7

fiction

3

vector

2

death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out

27

unrealistic

1

magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell

2

trampling down; overrunning; infringement; violation

1