jpdb beta

invitation

1

merchant; store; shop; merchant house; merchant family

1

second wife

1

special; extraordinary

1

careful selection; careful screening; hand-picking

1

he; she; that guy

1

candidate; contender; prospect; candidacy; candidature; nomination

1

thought; consideration; thinking

1

to go around; to return; to surround; to concern (usu. of disputes)

1

vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand

1

(barbed) wire entanglements

1

construction work

1

actually; really

1

remittance; sending money

3

to stagnate; to be delayed; to be left undone; to be overdue (of a payment); to fall into arrears; to be outstanding

1

present; gift; to give a present or gift

3

jade plant (Crassula argentea, Crassula ovata)

1

knocker

1

steward; butler

6

today; this day

1

who

1

meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview

1

entrance; front door

1

rudeness; impoliteness; discourtesy; insolence

1

notice; notification; permission; consent; rejection; refusal

1

mainly; primarily

1

head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)

1

to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)

1

(political) power; authority; influence

4

financial power; financial means; wealth

1

feeble

1

to release; to let go; to free; to add (pieces of eggplant, potato, etc.) to water, broth, etc.

1

to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back

1

since when; from when; how long

2

honor; honour; credit; prestige

1

to watch over; to watch attentively

1

to knock down; to beat (someone) up; to injure (someone) so badly they cannot recover (esp. emotionally); to overwhelm (with mental anguish, etc.)

1

debt; liabilities

1

intimacy; friendship; friendly relations

2

name; title; appellation; (under the) pretext (of); pretense

1

dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp

1

to inform; to notify; to know; to reign

1

to get strong; to gain strength

1

clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)

1

to be in a hurry; to be impatient; to be anxious (to do); to get a fright; to panic; to get flustered

3

on purpose; deliberately; intentionally

1

before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares

1

food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations; food supply

1

early; soon; quickly; swiftly; rapidly

1

to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of; to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title)

1