jpdb beta

to rack one's brains

1

being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); responding to kindness with resentment; thinking ill of someone who meant to be kind; unjustified resentment; unreasonable grudge

1

decisively; decidedly; boldly; precisely; exactly

1

to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely

2

guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of a visitor's arrival); informing (someone) of a visitor's arrival

2

envelope

1

table

2

leaving something where it is; abandoning something

1

mail; postal matter; postal item

1

direct mail

1

to break the seal

1

to hold in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to have (problems, debts, etc.); to take on (a responsibility); to employ; to have (on one's staff)

3

to make a lovely picture; to be perfect for a picture; picture-perfect; picturesque

1

ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly

2

to be born; to come into the world

1

subtracting points; deducting points; points deducted

1

hatred

1

always; all the time; constantly; frequently; often

1

loud voice

1

to rant and rave; to raise hell

1

impulse; urge; impetus

1

to spur on; to urge forward; to impel; to drive at high speed (e.g. a car)

1

biological parent; real parent

1

before; prior to; ago; the past; before; previously

1

to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter

1

circumstances; sequence of events; how things got this way; details; particulars

1

to take into one's possession; to receive; to take into one's care (e.g. person, pet); to take custody of; to leave; to go away

5

circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs

2

to be attentive to small details; to be attentive to others (or others' concerns); to have one's mind turn groundlessly to something negative

1

just now; at this moment; at this point of time

1

does not seem; unlikely; improbable

1

to be able to reach; to be within one's reach; to be able to afford; to be near (a certain age)

1

to crush; to squash; to flatten; to quash (a plan, opposition, etc.); to crush; to suppress

1

(in spite of) being old enough to know better

1

to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)

1

many times over; often; repeatedly; time after time

1

to rub together; to reconcile (ideas, proposals, plans); to compare and adjust

1

to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate

2

to rot; to decay; to die in obscurity; to be forgotten with time

2

each other; one another

1

still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less

1

from one end to another; thoroughly; completely; utterly

1

softly; smoothly; tenderly; gently; mildly; calmly

2

tuft of hair under the temple; sideburns; sidelocks

2

to draw (someone) close to one's breast; to pull close to one; to take into one's arms; to embrace

6

ardent; passionate; vehement

1

lightly; easily; carelessly

1

to cling to; to embrace; to throw one's arms around

1

persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency

1

kindergartener; preschooler

2