jpdb beta

central; mainline

1

live coals (for firelighting); cause (of disturbance, conflict, etc.); trigger

1

playing to the gallery; grandstanding; ad hoc; haphazard; dress rehearsal

1

old-fashioned; behind the times; out-of-date; antiquated

1

rescue squad; rescue party

1

door-to-door selling

2

aimlessly; unexpectedly (showing up); slowly swaying; staggering; moving feebly

1

universality; ubiquity; omnipresence; catholicity

2

wickedness; evil; iniquity; wrongness

1

letter of invitation

1

good results

1

large ball; giant ball (e.g. as pushed by competing teams in a school sports day)

4

professional team (usu. in sport); pro team

1

destructive; devastating

2

food stand; food stall; branch store

1

here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally

2

ordinary citizen; the general public

1

armband; arm band; brassard

1

taking part on the spur of the moment; participating without registering beforehand; last-minute entrant; specking on flower petals

4

cutting in line; queue jumping

1

shut up!; be quiet!

1

standing in a row; forming a line; alignment

1

opening address

1

lucky or unlucky aspect of a given day

1

moving to a different location to start a new job; (proceeding to) new appointment

2

tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)

1

to score points with (a person)

1

-proof; -resistant

3

clerk at the information desk

1

incompetence; laziness; worthlessness; good-for-nothing; loser; weakling

1

lottery; raffle; drawing (of lots)

1

to listen carefully; to strain one's ears

2

explosive power

1

ball-toss game, in which balls are thrown into a basket on a high pole (played at sports festivals)

6

mercilessly; relentlessly; unsparingly

1

airsoft (war game using air guns firing plastic pellets); game of survival

2

to be jumbled together

1

outstanding performance award; outstanding performance prize; Outstanding Performance Award; Distinguished Service Medal (e.g. military: US, UK, etc.)

1

to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order

1

overeagerness; rashness; forward step-out

1

to tingle with excitement; to be full of excitement; to be thrilled

1

lady; (female) pervert

1

offense; offence; method of attack

1

oops; uh oh; drats

1

to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)

1

slump

1

to negotiate (with someone about); to talk over (something with); to tackle someone (about); to throw on each other; to splash (water) on each other; to pour on each other

1

one's face turning pale (ashen); the color being drained from one's face

1

finally; in the end; on top of all that

1

closing ceremony

1