jpdb beta

to use up (all one's strength, ideas, etc.); to exert oneself; to do one's best

1

ostentation; display

3

overall victory; championship

12

honour; honor

3

privilege; special favor; special favour; benefit; prerogative; perk

2

awarding; conferment; granting; presentation

1

originally; by nature; from the start

3

to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

6

planning; project; plan; design

1

small scale

1

number of pupils

1

area; vicinity; side; edge; circumstances

3

intelligence gathering; information gathering

2

to be negligent in doing something; to shirk; to be off one's guard

2

annoying; noisy; strict

4

tournament

4

form; method; system; formula

3

secret plan; secret scheme; secret stratagem; secret method

2

drop-by-drop; dripping; dribbling; loosely (hanging); limply

2

very fast; in a twinkle; before one's eyes

1

piece of junk; worn-out article; clumsy; useless; dismantled car; hitting (with fist)

1

itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally

1

to alter one's state of consciousness; to change one's mindset; to change one's attitude

1

careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent

2

to cling to; to depend on; to embrace; to hug

1

to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make

1

to recover; to rally; to improve; to pick up

1

pose; pause

1

(physical) growth; development

1

place to look (esp. when averting one's eyes)

1

dignity; majesty; solemnity; gravity

1

love affair

5

winner-takes-all (system)

1

top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes

1

rather; sooner; preferably

4

to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work

2

deep black

1

match fixing; put-up job; fixed game

1

to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot

1

morality; moral principles

1

against; contrary to

1

recommendation; putting in a good word for someone

1

to pass (the night); to spend; to reveal; to divulge; to prove; to verify

4

contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation

2

performance; take; game; season; penetrative vaginal sex (with a prostitute); unsimulated sex (in an adult movie)

2

refusal; rejection; denial; veto

2

to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn

1

persuasion

7

tone

2

to take offense (at); to take offence (at); to feel hurt (by)

1