jpdb beta

abstract

1

concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial

1

brand name; trade name; product name

1

bite (in fishing)

1

ordinary person; member of the general public; non-celebrity

2

vague; obscure; indistinct; hazy; ambiguous

2

convenient; handy; useful

1

convenient

1

image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition

1

to come to a dead end; to come to a standstill; to reach a deadlock; to reach an impasse; to reach a stalemate

1

distress; wretched condition

1

powerful; strong

3

affirmation; affirmative

4

taking on a life of its own (of a rumour, etc.); walking by oneself; taking a walk by oneself; walking unaided; being able to walk without help; standing on one's own feet

1

common occurrence; everyday occurrence; not an uncommon case; normal thing; everyday affair

1

extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd

3

fetish (object believed to have supernatural powers)

4

having little knowledge (of); being ill-informed

1

increasingly; more and more; decreasingly; less and less

1

each time; every time; whenever (something happens); on the occasion of

1

to be given; to be granted; to be honored with; to give; to bestow; to confer

2

literary style; form of (written) language (e.g. classical, modern)

2

cover (of a book, magazine, etc.); binding; to appear on the cover of a magazine

1

unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible

2

circulation (of money, goods, etc.); distribution; circulation (of air, water, etc.); ventilation; flow

1

total lie; downright lie

1

binding (of a book); design (of a book cover)

1

unluckily

2

miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)

1

having one misfortune after another; insult to injury

1

crash; smash; bang; sound of a large, heavy object falling

1

preparedness; readiness; mental attitude; frame of mind

1

practice; putting into practice; implementation; praxis

1

eerie; hair-raising; exaggerated; ostentatious

1

story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend

1

to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch

1

passage; paragraph

1

while alive; during one's lifetime

2

agreement; coincidence; correspondence; conformity

1

hold; catch; connection; relationship; unease; discomfort

1

intended for ...; oriented towards ...; aimed at ...

1

euphemistic; circumlocutory; periphrastic; roundabout; indirect

1

difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

1

children's song; nursery rhyme

1

United Kingdom; Britain; Great Britain

1

Mother Goose

1

sound (of a sentence); euphony; wordplay; play on words; pun

1

to rhyme (with)

1

rhythmical; rhythmic; well-paced

1

in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se

3