jpdb beta

ghost story

1

innovation; new departure; milestone; breakthrough

1

isn't it?; it really is

1

to age; to grow old

2

tag (children's game); tig

2

bodily; with all one's weight; with one's whole body

1

to give by tossing or throwing

1

stiff; starchy

2

to crack; to get cracked; to develop a crack; to develop a fissure

2

crack; crevice; fissure

1

twofold and threefold; doubled and redoubled

1

pump-priming; rousing; stimulation

1

disapproval; disagreement; no; the noes; not ...; dis-

1

to become unrestrained and go to excess; to lose all restraint; to lose one's tension and become relaxed; to let go; to become disorderly; to be scattered

1

burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse; washout; rupture

1

quits; even; square

1

to affect a stylish air; to try to look good; to show off

1

to say nasty things (about); to use abusive language

1

masochist

1

to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)

2

food distribution (esp. cooked rice)

2

to protect against the elements; to shelter oneself from the weather

1

revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance

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to catch one's attention

1

distribution (e.g. films, rice); rationing (e.g. food, gasoline); food ration

1

headquarters; head office; main office

4

natural disaster; cataclysm

1

for no particular reason; for some reason or other; somehow or other

1

old friend; old pal

1

to push aside; to brush aside

2

lack of sleep; insufficient sleep

1

how many hours

2

applicant; candidate; volunteer

5

type of occupation; occupational category

1

to intervene; to stop (something)

1

to remake; to rebuild

2

disappointment; despair

1

snugly; neatly; compactly; cosily

1

epitaph; inscription on a tombstone

1

to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor

2

timidly; nervously; hesitantly; trembling (with fear); fearfully; anxiously

1

host; landlord; innkeeper

1

to bring (someone) back home; to take (someone) back home

2

impressions; thoughts; feelings; reactions

3

foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)

1

to be bound (by feelings); to be fettered (by); to be overcome (by); to be moved (by); to be touched (by)

2

to disturb; to upset; to ruffle; to stir up; to mess up

1

to use up all one's strength; to die

4

gravestone; tombstone

3

group; faction; (political) faction; wing; school (of thought, painting, etc.); sect

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