jpdb beta

sports ground; playing field; playground

3

ashamed

1

hiring from another company; recruitment; quick costume change (taking off outer costume); drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate); extraction; pulling out

4

laughable; ridiculous; pitiful; contemptible; absurd; nonsensical

1

to lose one's energy; to be cowardly

2

coward; namby-pamby; wimp; weak-kneed person; spineless person

1

shade of a rock

1

projection; protrusion; rupture (e.g. of gas); jetting out; prominence; standing out

1

to not believe one's ears

1

trust; confidence; credence

1

behaviour; behavior; conduct

1

seeing through (e.g. someone's lies); reading (e.g. thoughts); penetrating; detecting

1

troubled times; turbulent times

2

harsh tasting; strongly alkaline tasting; excessively strong-willed; fiercely individualistic; strongly idiosyncratic

1

curved sword (e.g. a scimitar, shamshir, etc.); curved blade

1

poor; meagre; meager; feeble; scanty; shabby

1

to plan; to plot; to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business); (arch.) to stand on tip-toes

1

to instigate; to tempt; to entice; to incite

1

nameplate

2

in a sense; in some way; to an extent

1

to start singing (of birds, etc.)

1

event; phenomenon; matter

2

harp; harmonica

7

argumentative

1

dated; date; date of effect (e.g. a rule change); fixed; external

1

punishment by demotion; disciplinary demotion

1

to be replaced with new growth

1

emergency; crisis; imminent danger; Vulnerable (conservation status); VU

1

to frolic about; to mess around

1

omen; sign; notice; indication

1

please ...

1

observer

1

very; very much; greatly; considerably; highly; exceedingly

2

quirk of fate; twist of fate; (an) irony

1

adieu; goodbye

1

customer service

1

to put in a call; to call in; to make a call; to contact by phone

1

logic; reasoning; argument; line of argument

1

several steps; much (better, higher, etc.); several cuts (above)

1

it is assuredly (that) ...; can say with confidence that it is ...

7

pretty

3

Gael

15

trickling (of water); flickering (of fire); darting about (e.g. a small animal); scampering about

1

tropical rainforest

1

visualization; visualisation

1

for some (unspecified) reason

1

to court; to woo; to approach defiantly

2

information transmission; information dissemination; conveying information

1

interview (on television, in a newspaper, etc.)

4

miso ramen

7