jpdb beta

eager; earnest; strenuous; fervent; assiduous; with utmost effort

1

fire; flame; blaze

1

to erase; to delete; to turn off (power); to switch off; to extinguish; to put out

1

to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case

9

place hidden from view; cover; shelter; hiding place

1

another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to

3

immediately; right away; at once; instantly

8

circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral

1

forbidding to speak; muzzling (a person); bribing into secrecy; hush money

2

money

1

to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)

6

revealing (information, a secret, etc.); disclosure; telling; letting out

1

the person concerned; the person in question; the said person

2

in one's own way or style

1

to request earnestly

1

what people say; rumours; public opinion

1

to close (e.g. book, eyes, meeting, etc.); to shut

1

as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")

1

to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed

48

married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)

4

to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember

9

place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point

6

rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk

8

to stream; to flow (liquid, time, etc.); to be washed away; to be carried; to drift; to float (e.g. clouds); to sweep (e.g. rumour, fire)

4

to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...

6

use; application; employment; utilization; utilisation

1

human being; human; person; character (of a person)

1

talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor

12

to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)

2

person

4

smelling burnt; tasting burnt; having a burnt smell

1

odour; odor; scent; aura; whiff; smacks of ...

1

to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself

6

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 answer a question

1

to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to interpret; to understand

1

money and goods

1

circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs

6

serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady

2

mainly; primarily

2

report; information

2

to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)

2

gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees

1

noble; aristocrat; peer

20

interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance

1

to have rumors going around (rumours); to have rumors spread

1

fire; conflagration

6

day in question; appointed day; that very day; the day (of issue, publication, etc.)

1

excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal

1

to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)

1