jpdb beta

realistic; pragmatic

1

selection; choice; option

2

to fall in love

1

newly-married life

1

lasting long; continuation; keeping at (something); sticking to (something)

1

worker; breadwinner; supporter; able person; able man; productive worker

1

poverty; need; destitution; having great difficulty with; struggling greatly with; being in distress

1

never (even in error); never, ever; never, no matter what happens; by no means

1

on purpose; deliberately; intentionally

2

to resign; to abandon; to step aside; to back out of; to retire; to get away

1

to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush

1

broom

3

briskly with small steps; trotting

2

siblings; brothers and sisters; brothers; siblings-in-law; brothers-in-law; mate

5

lady; gentleman; person

2

to work hard; to work diligently

1

focusing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely; selfish; self-serving

1

rake; fork; bamboo rake

2

to harden one's heart

1

to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one

1

to tag along; to follow; to tail; to leave tracks; to leave footprints

1

sobbing; weeping; whimpering

1

to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed

2

tree sparrow (Passer montanus); talkative person; knowledgeable person

1

being left out; being ostracized

1

turning point

1

to be forced to do or experience something (against one's will); to be forced to do something because one has no other choice

1

to be deep in talk

2

in accordance with; according to

1

height (of body); stature

1

puberty; adolescence

1

to make eyes at; to leer; to ogle; to ingratiate oneself; to toady; to flatter

1

to be jealous

1

pleasant feeling; pleasant sensation; pleasure

2

fate; destiny; lot

2

to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect

1

to be lifted; to be raised; to happen suddenly; to occur; to be homeroom teacher for the same class multiple years in a row; to move up with one's class

1

the eighties (age, years, etc.)

1

decision; determination

1

place; room; margin; scope

1

to well up; to burst; to arise

1

jealousy; envy

2

to go crazy; to lose one's mind

1

sudden death

1

on the way; en route; in the process of (development, construction, etc.); in the middle of

1

to pretend to be tough; to put on a brave front; to whistle in the dark; to bluff

2

to whine; to make feeble complaints

1

going out (before burning completely); dying out; fizzling out (e.g. of a plan); falling through; coming to nothing

1

detonation by contact; contact detonation; touching off (something); triggering; sparking

1

talkative; loose-lipped; persiflage; frivolous talk

1