jpdb beta

ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy

1

device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement

1

in name only; figurehead; (only) by name

1

sale; selling; selling point; gimmick; seller; vendor

1

to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie

1

defeat; loss; reverse; setback

1

natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly

1

trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention

3

sincerely; earnestly; repeatedly; over and over; again and again

1

to turn up; to make an appearance; to put in an appearance; to drop by

1

the end

1

music

1

bow; bowing

1

continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence

1

to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound

6

to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on

1

friend; acquaintance

1

to begin to speak

1

not worth mentioning (with neg. verb); nothing special

1

to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation

1

taking advantage of (a convenient situation)

1

Champagne

2

balcony

3

to look around; to survey

1

to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included

1

close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related

1

to experience chest pain; to have a pain in one's chest; to feel sick at heart; to have one's heart ache; to be anguished

1

to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than

2

well-matched (esp. of a couple); becoming; suitable

1

pessimistic; gloomy

1

though; much as

1

cowardly; timid; easily frightened

1

denouncing; calling (e.g. somebody a thief); branding (as)

1

treating someone like a child

3

lovesickness

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bitter

2

glass (drinking vessel); glass (material); glasses (eyewear)

1

mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short

1

alcohol; sake

1

age; years

1

black tea

1

to look around; to look towards (us)

1

to shake one's head

2

after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means

2

thin veneer; hasty preparation; knowledge or skill learned as a stopgap; re-tempering a dull sword (so that it looks as if it's sharp, but is actually unusable)

1

open seam; seam that has come apart; tear

1

miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable

1

as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible

1

even; if only; if just; as long as; the only thing needed

1

to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around

1