jpdb beta

high-pressure selling; aggressive peddling; the hard sell; forcing on someone (e.g. kindness)

1

night; evening; dinner

1

cookware; cooking utensil

1

machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus

1

leaving everything up to someone else

1

remote control

1

program (e.g. TV); programme

1

channel

1

zapping (through TV channels); channel surfing

1

thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article

7

copy; photocopy; book jacket blurb; (advertising) slogan

3

seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words

1

real thing; original; actual

1

as a child; when one was a child

1

worldwide; global; international; world-famous; world-class

1

infectious disease; infection

2

to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive

1

announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known

1

latest; newest; late-breaking (news)

2

research; study; investigation

2

literature; books (reference); document

1

copying; duplication; reproduction; copy

1

sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered

1

to turn over; to turn (pages); to leaf through (a book, etc.); to tear off; to strip off; to take off

2

English (language)

1

graph; chart; diagram

1

chart; diagram; graph; figure

1

word; vocabulary

1

to be too numerous; to be too much

1

cities, towns and villages; municipalities

1

extra-large (clothing size); XL; language laboratory; LL

1

(in one's) possession

2

lending and borrowing

2

all; every

1

a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course

2

convenient; handy; useful

1

idea; conception; way of thinking; approach; expression

1

academic paper; scholarly paper; academic article; treatise

2

publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story); running (e.g. a serial); insertion (e.g. of an advertisement); printing; posting (e.g. on the web)

1

magazine; journal; periodical

1

to send; to dispatch; to see (someone) off; to escort; to bid farewell to (the departed); to say goodbye to; to spend (time)

4

prefecture (of Japan); county (of China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (of France); province (of Italy, Spain, etc.)

1

municipality; local government; self-governing body; autonomous body

1

border (between countries); national border

1

to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)

2

as a matter of fact; actually; effectively; in reality; in effect

1

library network

1

occupation; profession; job; vocation; career; trade

1

new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date

1

faculty (of a university); school; college; department

2