jpdb beta

approval; agreement; support; favour; favor

1

to benefit; to profit; to gain; to reap rewards

1

lukewarm; tepid; half-hearted; vague; lenient; mild

1

quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument

3

odious; hateful; detestable; (speaking ironically) darling

2

landing place (for aircraft); common ground; compromise; agreement

1

to overturn; to capsize; to overthrow (government etc.); to reverse (decision etc.); to disprove (an established theory etc.)

1

slightly (blushing); suddenly (getting bright, flaring up, flashing on, etc.); distractedly

1

to throw out; to drop; to toss; to abandon; to neglect; to dismiss

2

as soon as; right after

1

notification; official notice; directive (e.g. from higher to lower levels of the administration); being well versed (in); being proficient (in)

1

blanching; bleaching

2

cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant

1

winter sky

1

to breathe out; to breathe; to tell (a lie); to use (foul language); to vomit; to throw up

2

trick

1

fluency; volubility

1

to listen attentively to; to be lost in

1

to clear one's name

1

exaltation; emotional uplift

1

sense of helplessness; feeling of powerlessness

3

straw

1

to suffer; to groan; to be worried

3

falsehood; untruth; lie; fallacy (logic)

1

indictment; prosecution; complaint

1

martyr

1

sublime; noble; high-minded

1

to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)

1

lofty; sublime; noble; the sublime (aesthetics)

1

sophistry; sophism

1

facing upward

1

to picture; to come into one's mind; to remember

1

to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve

1

to induce (somebody to do something); to tempt; to act toward (somebody in a certain way); to handle (men); to send; to forward to

4

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

1

gloomy (of a person); dark; cheerless

1

to have a narrow escape from death

1

to stay on (e.g. at one's friends house); to remain in the same neighborhood

1

to take another good look at; to reconsider; to analyze; to reexamine

1

replacement

1

to change places; to relieve one another; to replace someone

4

lawsuit; complaint

1

to clamber; to climb with hands and feet; to crawl up; to creep up

1

to tie; to fasten; to wear (necktie, belt); to put on; to total; to sum; to be strict with

1

waxing moon

1

bright (esp. of the moon); broad and empty

1

to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour

2

for many days

1

impatience; uneasiness; irritation; fretfulness

1

substitution; replacement; shifting; change

4