jpdb beta

door; gate; opening; title page

3

taking a seat; sitting down (in one's seat)

1

to fold one's arms; to link arms with someone

1

unexpected; unlikely; terrible; awful; very; extremely

1

to feed (e.g. an animal on oats); to let eat; to support (e.g. a family); to provide for; to inflict (damage); to deal (e.g. a blow)

1

to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage

1

to draw a bow; to oppose; to defy; to disobey one's superiors

1

that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game

5

stealing; theft

1

store; shop; establishment; restaurant

1

shopping; purchased goods

1

intonation; accent; modulation; inflection

1

the south; southward; southern direction; countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)

1

feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction

2

agreement; accord; correspondence; union; unity; cooperation

1

pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says

1

perpetrators of (some) crime; (some type of) crime

1

detailed; full; minute; knowing very well; knowledgeable (about); well-acquainted (with)

4

to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous

7

departure

1

dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp

1

jurisdiction; control

1

joint ownership; co-ownership; sharing (e.g. a viewpoint); sharing (files, devices on a network, posts on social media, etc.)

1

to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death

2

to act timid; to show diffidence; to be hesitant; to appear embarrassed; to look ashamed

1

probably; likely; perhaps; a lot of; much; many

2

one's subordinate

1

to look (stare) back at (someone); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to put a person to shame; to look back (behind oneself)

1

name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext

4

to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)

1

not so

2

pebble; small stone

1

one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission

2

guardian; protector; patron; parent

5

to be connected (to); to be joined together; to connect (of a telephone call, the internet, etc.); to get through; to lead (to an outcome); to bring about (a result); to be lined up (e.g. of cars)

3

management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons

2

to open (one's eyes) wide

2

... or something (like that); ... or whatever; so-called ...; a certain ...

1

to become overgrown; to grow thick; to spread; to run rampant; to thrive

1

weed

1

insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising

1

as soon as; right after

1

to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)

1

originally; essentially; naturally; in the first place; to begin with

2

bargaining; haggling; tactics; strategy; (tactical) advance or retreat of troops

2

to tell a lie; to fib

2

hostage

2

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

parents; both parents

1

awareness of things around one; ability to understand what is going on around oneself; judgment; judgement; discretion

1