jpdb beta

solitude; loneliness; isolation

2

one drop (of fluid)

6

thick (of a liquid); muddy; gooey

1

judge; arbitrator

2

oar; all; (pulling an) all-nighter; staying up all night

1

father-in-law; foster father; stepfather

2

established practice; custom

1

and; thereupon; because of that

4

protection; repellent

2

seeming; pose; show; pretense; sham; mock

1

effect

1

the prospects look brighter; there is hope of accomplishing (something)

1

speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal

1

to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down; to calm down; to die down; to subside

2

upload

1

to distinguish oneself; to stand out

4

privacy; secrecy; confidentiality

1

risk aversion; hedging; danger avoidance

1

bold; daring; audacious

1

modern person; people of today

1

competitor; rival

1

political opponent

1

person requiring special attention; person to be wary of; person under (police) surveillance; dangerous person

1

the nail that sticks out gets hammered down; people that stick out too much get punished; tall trees catch much wind; people that excel at something become disliked

1

stake; post; pile; (arch.) stump

3

with; by; because of; on account of; on (a day, date); at (a time)

2

indulging in every possible luxury

2

to spend all one's time doing; to do day in, day out; to do nothing but ...; to pass (of days)

1

unfeeling; heartless; cold-hearted; cruel

3

I can say now (what I couldn't before); now (that things have changed) I don't mind telling you; I couldn't tell you until now; I couldn't have told you this back then

1

naval battle

1

blip bleep; in short repeated movements

1

to go with the flow; to go with the times

1

goddess

228

limited; restricted; constrained

1

various; a variety of; all sorts of; many (different)

2

culmination; southing; crossing the meridian

1

shell

1

to neigh

1

Gungnir (Odin's spear)

2

perfect; ideal; completely satisfactory; leaving nothing to be desired; faultless; impeccable

1

sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness

23

heavenly beings shown flying around the main image in a temple; Feitian (2008 Chinese space suit)

1

(gymnastical) giant swing; all-out effort; frenzied activity

1

careless; sloppy; faulty; using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing); piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors

1

to knead into

1

lotus flower; Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus); china spoon; lotus-shaped pedestal for a gravestone

1

zero degrees (Celsius); freezing point; zero (on a scale)

1

moonless sky (poetic usage)

1

to push back; to press back; to force back; to (refuse and) return (something); to give back

1