jpdb beta

as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly; actually

1

resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness

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to bring up a subject

1

interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun

1

I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow

2

one year; some time ago

4

to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine

2

to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.); to relate; to tell of; to show; to indicate

1

using every trick in the book; using every trick one knows; by one rouse or another; with careful coaxing; carefully (e.g. nursing a damaged vehicle)

2

to delay; to put off; to procrastinate

1

calling (someone a thief, coward, etc.); branding (as); denouncing

1

discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability

1

story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend

1

reeking of blood; stinking of blood; bloody (battle, crime, etc.)

1

sound argument; fair argument; just reasoning

2

root (of a plant); stump (of a tree); root (of a problem, etc.); base

1

to mend; to patch up; to fix (hair, clothes, appearance, etc.); to adjust; to keep up appearances; to cover up (e.g. a mistake)

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to come back

2

to push into; to cram into; to stuff into; to break in; to burgle; to burglarize

2

resignation; acceptance; consolation

1

to win; to achieve; to gain; to obtain; to secure

2

totally (immersed in something, e.g. liquid, work); addicted

1

to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work

1

to make sacrifices for; to pay dearly for

1

place of execution

1

martyr

1

cheating; deception; trickery; manipulation; juggling; falsifying

1

to resolve; to make up one's mind; to decide

1

to hold on to something (secret, lead in a race, etc.)

1

to leave one's seat

1

(informal) discussion; talk; (formal and tedious) talk; lecture; admonition; reprimand

1

abrupt plot change; unexpected story development; story development from out of left field

1

overdependence (on others; usu. one's fosterers or seniors); lack of self-reliance; presumed acceptance (of one's behaviour); presumed benevolence; attention-seeking (behavior)

1

to forget something ever existed; to pretend something didn't happen; to put something behind one; to forgive (something)

1

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

1

relationship of mutual trust; fiduciary relation

1

confrontation; showdown

1

flat board; slab; monotonous; dull; even pitch; accentless pitch

1

clip-clop; clippety-clop; clamshell cellphone; flip cellphone

1

bang; boom; crack

1

to tear up; to tear off; to rip up; to (forcibly) separate (a couple, family, etc.); to force apart; to tear apart

1

incompetence; laziness; worthlessness; good-for-nothing; loser; weakling

1

being lost for words

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slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)

1

distinctive; characteristic

1

800; eight hundred; multitude; large number

1

fourteen; 14

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unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking

1

kidnapper; kidnaper; abductor

1

effigy; likeness; portrait; statue

1