jpdb beta

with a snap; (breaking) cleanly; (rejecting) sternly; flatly; smartly; (dressing up) well

1

reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...

1

in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue

10

end of the work day; close of business; end of the school term; end of the school year

1

time; (the) hour; favourable time; opportunity; chance

3

lying down and getting up; waking; getting up; living (with); staying (with)

1

professional duties

1

to work hard; to try hard; to strive; to endeavour; to endeavor; to devote oneself to

1

languid; listless

1

four corners; four ordinal directions

1

coloured glass; colored glass

1

to distribute; to arrange; to arrange; to lay out (as in decorating); (arch.) to marry off; (arch.) to exile

2

to sing; to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem; to express in the form of a poem; to recite (a poem)

5

personal; individual; private

2

complicated; complex; intricate; confusing; difficult; troublesome

1

relaxed; familiar; easy to access; friendly

1

grant; bestowal; giving something to someone of low social standing (by a person of very high social standing)

1

prize; award; reward

1

political

1

implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation

1

lovely; wonderful; charming; enchanting; nice; great

2

implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication; obscurely

1

elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable; easy

4

royal family

24

caller; visitor; company; guest

1

to tread on thin ice; to go out on a limb; to walk a tightrope; to take risks; (lit.) to cross a dangerous bridge

1

to talk to oneself; to mutter

1

sovereign; emperor; monarch

1

to be disconnected; to get out of place; to miss the mark; to get it wrong (e.g. guess, expectation); to be removed; to be excluded

2

adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined

1

passage; pathway; roadway; avenue; aisle

5

direct line; direct communication; connecting directly; through service; nonstop service

1

closure (of a road); suspension of traffic; Road Closed; No Through Road; closed to traffic

1

a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago

1

being in the office; being at work; working for a company; being an employee

8

be; is

3

to take a step backward; to step back (i.e. to re-think something); to distance oneself (from); to behave humbly; to budge (a little); to make one concession

1

to pick up; to gather; to find (and pick up; something someone has dropped); to select; to choose; to get (unexpectedly); to hit upon (luck, an opportunity, etc.)

5

detour; circuitous route; diversion

1

secrecy; highly classified information

2

to say; to tell; to state; to do

1

side entrance; tradesman's entrance; service entrance; staff entrance

2

back (esp. of a building, etc.); rear; behind

1

detour; roundabout way

1

exit and entrance

1

the rest; the others; in addition (to that); besides that; and so forth; and the like

1

to be transparent; to show through

2

sunlight filtering through trees

1

to cast a shadow; to appear; to loom (of a threat, etc.); to manifest (of symptoms, etc.)

1

to perceive; to grasp (the situation)

2