jpdb beta

large army

1

secret; private; surreptitious

1

Antichrist

2

murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post

4

fort; stronghold; fortification

1

to gain time; to play for time; to buy time

1

to crown; to cap; to prefix with; to start with; to begin with

1

candidate; applicant

1

to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)

4

thousand years; millennium; (fig.) long time

1

to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate

3

curse; malediction; hex

16

to be covertly swapped; to be replaced (e.g. with a counterfeit)

1

(not) anyone; (not) a single person; no one; nobody

5

to shoot dead; to shoot to death

1

sandstorm; noise (video); snow

1

irritability; feeling of impatience; sense of uneasiness

1

leg band (e.g. on bird or hospital patient); ring; anklet

2

wooden; made of wood

1

little finger; pinky; fourth (occ. fifth) finger; little toe

4

(mouth) gag

2

earplug (for protection against noise or water)

1

severe; harsh

2

side (of the torso); flank; illegitimate child; child born by someone other than one's wife

9

to declare confidently; to declare proudly; to declare dramatically; to strike a pose (for dramatic effect)

2

(unpleasant) state of affairs; predicament; mess

1

good scolding

1

reading with pleasure

2

picaresque novel

1

limits; end; bounds

2

dangerous position; peril

1

acting rashly; running wildly; runaway (process); reckless baserunning

7

(hand-to-hand) fight; grapple; scuffle; struggling (with a problem, task, etc.); grappling; wrestling

5

damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy

2

three times (as much); treble; triple; threefold

3

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

2

smelling of mold; musty; putrid; old-fashioned; stale; hackneyed

3

delay; lag; falling behind; falling behind in; lagging behind in

1

to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind

3

to become blunt; to grow dull; to become less capable; to weaken; to falter

3

to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to

1

blameless; above reproach; beyond reproach; faultless; perfect

1

highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly

3

decanter

8

miserable; wretched; lonely; dreary; shabby; comfortless

1

living by oneself; living alone

1

restriction; restraint; limitation; limit

2

each place; various places

3

focus; focal point; focus (of attention, a discussion, etc.); point at issue; focus

7

nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos); Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)

1