jpdb beta

entering a room; studying under a Buddhist teacher

2

end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap

1

holding a castle (during a siege); holing up; confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors

1

obedient; meek; docile; honest; frank; upfront (about one's feelings)

1

(whale) breaching

1

to blow away; to blow off; to dispel; to drive away; to talk big

1

slug

1

hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done

1

to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away

1

cannibalism; anthropophagism

1

act; deed; conduct

1

interior; inside; internal

2

to hesitate to say

1

air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all

1

to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)

2

to be shut; to close; to be locked; to tighten; to be tightened; to become sober

1

trace; vestige; mark; sign; evidence

2

to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread

2

preface; introduction; preamble

1

lower layer; layer beneath; lower strata (classes)

3

scientist

1

group; mass

1

doesn't amount to doing (something); not significant enough to require (something); unnecessary

1

go that far; to that extent

1

to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind

1

physical

2

evidence; proof

3

to be aware of; to know about; to be concerned in; to have to do with

1

exit; gateway; way out; outlet; vent; leak

2

high alert; a state of high alert; on alert

1

to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan

1

escape; break-out; prolapse; proptosis

3

on the occasion of; at the time of

1

authenticity; credibility

1

abrupt; sudden

1

soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself

4

to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; after all; it must be remembered; only

1

to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)

2

calamity; disaster; misfortune

1

after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means

3

miscellaneous thoughts (on); miscellaneous impressions

1

to be temperate in; to refrain; to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number); to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for

2

unhappiness; sorrow; misfortune; death (usu. of a relative); bereavement

1

to reflect on (oneself, past conduct, etc.); to contemplate; to examine; to think over; to introspect

1

social justice

1

to throw oneself (into an activity)

1

to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to call in; to send for

1

roguish; impish

1

desperate; frantic; excited; worked up; heated; eager

1

to fear; to be afraid of

1