jpdb beta

to polish; to shine; to burnish; to refine (a skill, etc.); to improve; to hone

1

thick; bulky; massive; heavy

2

substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange

2

melody; tune

12

to listen carefully; to strain one's ears

4

atom

1

exercise; physical training; appeal; campaign; motion; movement

1

above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent

4

refreshing; clear

2

one person's portion

2

repeatedly; over and over again; several layers deep; layer upon layer; row upon row

1

diverse; various

1

to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create

2

monotony; monotone; dullness; monotone; monotonic

1

colour; color; hue; tints

1

to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

5

rainbow

1

amplification; magnification; amplification; making larger

2

affection (esp. parental); love; fondness

3

report to the emperor

4

score; sheet music

1

oral instruction; passing information by word-of-mouth; oral tradition

1

to be pleased with; to suit

1

to cross over; to go across; to extend; to cover; to range

2

rhythm

1

painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable

3

words; writing; ci (form of Chinese poetry); independent word

6

which (of three or more); well; now; c'mon

3

to dream (of)

1

to ask; to enquire; to query

1

prickling; stinging; biting; tale-telling; tattling

1

one-by-one; separately; in detail

2

echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

3

to release

2

intense suffering

1

general; popular; common; typical

2

to be the case that

4

to deal with (a person); to treat; to deal with (a problem); to handle; to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to deal in

1

to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky

5

mishearing

1

before one's eyes

8

right in the middle (of); midst; height

1

one in a million (chance, etc.); one in ten thousand; in the unlikely event that

1

sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable

3

humming

1

to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt

1

cot; bunk

1

to breathe in; to inhale; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up

2

to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)

6

late; slowly

1