jpdb beta

back-facing; backwards; backward-looking; retrogressive; reactionary

1

unwelcome favor; unwelcome favour; misplaced kindness

1

alignment; arrangement; counter for sets

1

to form a line; to queue up; to line up

1

four-digit number; thousands column

1

feeding ground

1

whirr; hum; buzz; whoosh; woosh; whiz

3

air force

1

Guernica (Spain)

1

boss; leader; head; boss (difficult enemy, usu. at the end of a section or level)

8

gaping (e.g. mouth, wound); (opening) wide; wide open; snapping up (e.g. bait); biting into (food); gobbling up

1

to split; to tear; to burst; to be separated; to be divided

1

gale; violent (strong) wind

1

without losing time (e.g. to do); without even time for (doing something)

1

one's last moments; hour of death; death throes; agonies of death

1

fighting a good fight; putting up a good fight; fighting bravely

1

larva; grub; maggot

1

a lick; one lick; engulfing (e.g. of fire); enveloping; consuming

1

perpetual snow

4

high place; high ground; height; broad (point of) view

1

low flame; (very) low heat; gentle heat

4

to get burned and stuck on (e.g. rice in a pan); to become uncollectable (e.g. debt or loan); to become irrecoverable; to remain unchanged (e.g. stock market)

1

nylon track suit (when worn as street fashion); rattle-rattle; rustle-rustle; whisper-whisper

2

eggbeater; whisk

2

creamy (in flavor or texture)

1

beloved; dearest

2

before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing

1

love birds; sickeningly sweet and soppy couple

1

expulsion (of a pupil); excommunication; anathema; expulsion (from a gang)

5

people (of a country); nation; citizen; Democratic Party for the People

1

Japanese (language)

1

to get into a fight; to take up the gauntlet; to accept a challenge

1

to beat (eggs)

1

egg yolk

4

bowl

7

thickness (of a sauce, soup, etc.); viscosity; thick consistency

3

patient; persevering

1

creaminess; cream-like consistency

1

to overstep the mark; to go too far; to overdo it

1

below freezing

3

ice house; ice room; cold room

1

tunnel; (mining) gallery; level; shaft; pit

1

shrill; strident; sharp (pain, e.g. headache, earache); ice-cold; very cold

1

to let (food) cool slightly after cooking

3

to top up (drinks, water, rice, etc.); to replenish

1

scrape-scrape; with a scraping sound

2

to shine brilliantly; to shine radiantly

1

massive; bulk; block-like; aggregated; agglomerated

1

to serve; to dish up; to dish out; to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn

1

to love

1