jpdb beta

person who is socially ostracized (e.g. an ex-convict, mistress, illegitimate child); social outcast; person with a shady past; obscure person; person who lives in obscurity; person who has been forgotten by the world

2

several years

1

recognition of services

1

brisk and efficient; diligent; devoted; spirited

4

greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice

3

misfortune; ill fate; bad luck; obscurity

1

presumptuous; impertinent; impudent; ridiculous; laughable; absurd

2

petty bourgeois; lower middle class

1

to be intimate with; to befriend

1

to give up on; to turn one's back on; to abandon; to forsake; to desert; to leave

1

honest; steady

1

to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch

2

promotion; advancement; rising in rank

1

to regard (as); to recognize (as); to see as; to pay attention to; to watch

2

exile; banishment; eviction; elimination (e.g. of poverty); removal

10

donation; contribution; endowment

1

to pilfer; to filch; to pocket; to make off with

2

of no use whatsoever; good for nothing; useless

4

exemplar; model; example; pattern

1

selection (from many people for an important position); exceptional promotion

3

unreasonable request; asking for something unreasonable

1

apt to (do); liable to; prone to

1

group member

1

design (on a banner); emblem (on a flag); insignia; banner (e.g. of democracy); slogan; cause

1

justification; rationalization

1

rationalization; justification

1

covering (a loss, deficit, etc.); making up (for); compensating (for); supplementation

1

insolvency

2

poor people; the poor

1

drying up; running dry; running out; being exhausted; being drained

4

labored breathing; laboured breathing; dyspnea; dyspnoea

1

master; expert; brilliant move (in go, shogi, etc.); excellent move

2

to engrave an inscription; to call (designate) itself; to mark; to label

1

insurrection; riot; uprising; rebellion; revolt

1

prayer; grace (at meals); exorcism

1

to cheat (someone out of); to swindle; to wangle; to wheedle; to get

1

nothing but; none other than

5

to be nauseating; to be disgusting; to be revolting; to throw up; to vomit

1

age thirty; one's thirties

1

to use (a tool, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend

1

real number; actual number (as opposed to a speculative number); true number

1

chasing too far; pursuing relentlessly

1

transport; transportation; conveyance; carriage

2

brilliant; bright; dazzling

2

storage; housing for equipment and machines; putting into computer memory; saving

1

chalk (rock); white wall

3

curve; turn; curveball; curve ball; (wine) cellar

1

full of; brimming with

3

to fill (with); to be filled with; to express (an emotion); to project (sadness, joy, etc.); to wear (e.g. a smile)

4

moat; fosse; canal; ditch

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