jpdb beta

to be deep in talk

1

to surround; to encircle; to enclose

1

food

3

suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy

1

site; plot; lot; grounds

1

disquieting; threatening; turbulent; restless; unsettled; disturbing

1

father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy

50

to get information out of a person; to begin listening

1

to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum

1

grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)

2

to look (stare) back at (somebody); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to look back (behind oneself)

1

mantle; cloak; manteau

5

to become vulgar; to coarsen

1

(sound of) laughter; laughing voice

2

stillbirth

2

baby; infant

3

heir; heiress; inheritor; successor

4

in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of

2

to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up

1

finger; hands and fingers; hands

1

face; looks; vestiges; trace

2

to grudge; to be stingy; to be unwilling to pay

1

to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from

1

proposal; proposition; suggestion

2

to have the nerve to

3

irritating; frustrating

1

to stamp one's feet

1

arrogant; haughty; insolent

1

to pierce; to penetrate; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice); to feel keenly; to make a deep impression

1

to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

1

to take back; to recapture

1

garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area

1

darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy

1

wet through; drenched

1

to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly

2

to accept; to receive; to agree

4

from the beginning; without hesitation; flatly (e.g. refusing); entirely; completely

1

misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess

1

sticking; clinging; with a smack (e.g. sitting down); hard; all over; thickly

1

so far as

1

meddling; interference; extending a paw to drag something closer; (arch.) hand; (arch.) arm; (arch.) disfigured arm

1

to run around trying to escape; to run from place to place

1

to shrug (shoulders); to duck (head); to draw back (body)

2

My goodness!; Good lord!; Holy cow!

2

to take revenge

1

to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself

1

death from disease; death from illness

1

rough; wild; rude; harsh; gruff; violent

1

unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; wavering (in one's mind); unsteadily; aimlessly; unconsciously

2

retreating figure; appearance from behind

1