jpdb beta

great teacher; great master; great author; great doctor

1

thoughts; thinking

1

grasp; catch; understanding

4

to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase

1

middle of the night; dead of night

2

good thing; strong point; good family; prestigious school; the right moment; utter

2

floodlight; floodlight projector

2

cheer; shout of joy

3

angry roar; bellow

1

commotion; stir

4

clapping hands; applause

1

not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it

1

fully armed; armed to the teeth

2

armed forces; military; troops

1

each (carrying)

1

to wake up; to rouse out of bed; to knock on the door and wake someone

1

enemy nation

1

to attack; to assault; to assail

1

principle; theory; fundamental truth

1

amount of light; quantity of light

3

someone (unspecified, but someone in particular); a certain person

1

to be launched (e.g. rocket); to lift off; to be washed up (on the shore)

2

blessing

4

consideration; guess; conjecture; judgment; judgement

1

to take notes

1

newspaper reporter; print journalist

3

to join; to piece together; to set (bones); to graft (onto a tree)

1

reporter; journalist

2

absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming

1

to write down

5

cooperation; coordination; link

1

exaggeration; overstatement; saying too much; misstatement; slip of the tongue; gaffe

1

mainly; primarily

1

honest; steady

1

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)

2

to cut into (a line, conversation, etc.); to force oneself into (e.g. a crowd); to wedge oneself into; to fall below (of stock prices, sales, etc.); to drop below

1

to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of

1

newspaper story (article, account)

1

cannot possibly be

2

splendid; fine; praiseworthy; creditable; legal; legitimate

5

making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi

2

charm; attractiveness; courtesy; ingratiating behaviour; entertainment; amusement

1

to be responsible for; to bear the responsibility of

1

presence (e.g. of an observer); observation; observer; trading session (at an exchange)

1

under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side

2

list; wrist

1

public order; public peace; public security; law and order

2

to look down on; to make light of

1

shaking; shake; unsettledness; instability; existence of multiple spellings, pronunciations, usages, etc. for a single word

3

river; stream; River; the ... river

1