jpdb beta

to become familiar with and cherish; to get to know and love

1

desire; wish; aspiration

1

no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than

2

reward; recompense; return; punishment; retribution

1

as ... as one can; as ... as possible; as much as possible

2

obstinate; stubborn; obdurate; headstrong; willful; perverse

1

balance; equilibrium

1

stone monument

1

estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately

1

to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout

1

going through; going via; going by way of

1

rampart; castle walls

1

to forget to say; to forget to mention

1

sentimental; sentimentality

1

short; brief

1

manservant

2

first part; first volume; prequel

1

ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid

1

murder case

1

one's house; one's home; one's family

1

management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons

2

as one of

1

to have one's name entered (in a list)

1

progress; pace; carriage; step; stage

1

minor change

1

spring; fountain

1

implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization

2

impossible

1

difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)

1

slow; lagging; tardy

2

unflaggingly; steadily; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking

1

plan; blueprint

1

staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

1

opportunity; chance; folding; fold; small food box (wooden or cardboard); folding in ... (two, three, etc.); counter for folded items

1

secret; secrecy

2

other; another; over; more than; I; me

24

sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly

2

matter causing distress; something causing worry

1

to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress

1

to dodge (e.g. a question); to evade; to sidestep; to give (someone) the slip

1

management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome

1

approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)

4

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

6

most suitable; optimum; optimal; best

1

template; run of the mill; formulaic

1

to spend time (on doing something)

2

to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)

1

ant

1

power; authority; jurisdiction

1

big problem

1