jpdb beta

narrow margin; slim margin

1

average; mean; balance; equilibrium

1

time; thyme; time out (e.g. in sport)

1

hooray; yay; whee; yowzer; whoopee; yes

2

to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)

2

indefinite; hazy; vague; unsettled; undecided

1

is it?; isn't it?

1

company president; manager; director

5

play; recreation; play (theatre); performance; staging; praying

1

to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify

1

paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reap what you sow

1

effectiveness; efficacy; efficaciousness

2

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

1

shelter; safe shelter; evacuation shelter; place of refuge

1

bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh

1

to bear fruit

1

orca (Orcinus orca); killer whale; grampus

1

end; tip; extremities; terminal

1

to become numb; to go to sleep (e.g. a limb); to get an electric shock; to tingle (from an electric shock); to be excited; to be titillated

2

oscillation; vibration; swing (e.g. of a pendulum)

2

I; we

2

reaction; recoil; kick; backlash

1

almost every day; almost daily

1

brains; brain tissue

1

resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)

1

surprise attack; sneak attack; foul play

1

(fictional) character; character; personality; persona

2

impossible; incapable (of doing); incompetence; inability; impotence; having no solution (of an equation)

1

though; even if; whether ... or ...

1

division of labour; division of labor; splitting into groups (e.g. to search)

1

that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there

1

assistance; backing; reinforcements

3

to dip out; to scoop up; to ladle out

1

to be filled with strength; to be filled with effort; to be enthusiastic about; to be tired (ironic)

1

one has no other choice but to do what one has to do

1

precision; accuracy

1

decline; ebb; failure; decay; decrease; loss

1

barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty

1

to throw on the fire; to burn

1

foolish act; folly

1

it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...

1

adversity strengthens the foundations; after a storm comes a calm; what doesn't kill you makes you stronger

1

dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); insipidity

2

extraordinarily; astonishingly; extremely; terribly; unreasonably; absurdly

1

help

1

one (more) effort; one (more) push; a try; a go

1

simultaneous; all at once

1

sweeping with fire; mowing down; strafing

1

hardening; fortifying; pledge; vow; defense; defence

1

when; at what point

1