jpdb beta

curtain; hanging; bunting

3

sofa; couch; lounge chair

2

languorous; weary; listless; somber; sombre; gloomy

1

to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely

3

to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously

3

to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage

1

to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!

1

difficult to ...; hard to ...

1

way of talking; speaking style

3

subordinate person

2

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

7

they

1

(doing) various things; (doing) this and that; being apt to; being prone to; at any rate; anyhow

1

living thing; living creature; animal; life

1

to let slip a secret; to let the cat out of the bag

1

hoot hoot; tu-whit tu-whoo; oh!; I see; huh!

1

long time (since the last time); first in a long time

1

but I suppose; it seems; probably; I guess

1

to decorate; to ornament; to display; to exhibit; to mark (e.g. the day with a victory); to adorn (e.g. the front page)

4

to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

13

for a short while; for a brief period; soon; in a short while

2

closing one's eyes; passing away; dying peacefully

1

to be generally accepted; to be acknowledged by oneself and others

1

first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole

2

strong spirit; mettle; backbone; guts; fighting spirit

3

wise; sensible; well-advised; intelligent; sagacious; prudent

1

very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life; eagerly

3

meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up

2

vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology

1

to twist; to twirl; to fiddle around with; to play with; to rack one's brains

1

pleasant; delightful; enjoyable; joyful; cheerful; amusing

1

that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you

19

vague; fuzzy; elusive; slippery

2

father

3

to lose one's temper; to lose patience; to have enough; to be exasperated; to become irritated; to get fed up

2

noisily; with loud footsteps; in a crowd; incessantly; all together

1

to swipe; to nick; to pilfer; to steal

1

long; drawn-out; very long

1

to stretch (unbend) oneself

1

as soon as; no sooner than; one way or another; objection

1

unexpectedly; surprisingly; unexpected; unanticipated; unforeseen

2

corners of the mouth

1

to fan (oneself, flames, etc.); to flap (in the wind); to instigate; to stir up; to drive up prices (by buying a large amount of something); to take a photo from a low angle; to tailgate

3

to pay attention to another's needs; to attend to; to fuss about; to take into consideration

2

wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)

1

to shake one's head (in denial)

1

to be irritated; to get annoyed; to lose one's patience

1

anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case

7

to pass; to pass on; to give (something) a miss; to cut it out; to knock off (for the day); to let the matter drop

1

even; even if; even though; because of; on the grounds that

3