jpdb beta

embarrassed; feeling ashamed; feeling awkward

2

falling in love; attachment

1

older; senior

1

to take seriously; to take someone at their word; to believe (to be true)

4

knowing only too well; being fully aware of

1

small salary; meagre salary; low pay

1

petty official

1

this person

4

to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check

12

comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery

5

being worth doing

2

every month; trite; commonplace; conventional

1

motive; incentive; motif

1

(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances

5

to point upward; to look upward; to improve

2

often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently

3

overflowing; flood; inundation; oversupply; plethora

1

downstream; lower reaches of a river; lower classes

1

settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony

1

to wash away

1

river which often overflows its banks

3

tributary; branch

1

after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after

5

water damage; flood disaster

1

large enterprise; big business; large undertaking

1

plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme

8

planning; devising (a plan); drafting; drawing up

2

huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion

1

estimate (of costs); budget

6

acquisition; possession

3

good quality; fine quality; superior quality; high quality

2

building material

1

someone else's hands; someone else's possession; hand (worker); aide; labor; labour

6

securing; obtaining; ensuring; belay; belaying

6

each place; various places

1

reconciliation of interests; settlement of interests

1

local residents

1

laying the groundwork; behind-the-scenes maneuvering; consensus-building process; digging around the roots of a tree (before transplanting)

1

coming and going; keeping in touch; visiting each other; street traffic; highway

2

restless; fidgety; in a hurry

3

to yearn for (someone, something); to miss

1

in detail; with great care; completely; fully

2

poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty

11

poverty; penury; need; shortage; lack; want

5

to narrow; to reduce; to contract

1

to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)

2

village

2

to carry on one's back; to be burdened with; to take responsibility for; to have (something) in the background; to be in front (of something); to be conceited

4

standard item; usual thing; (a) classic; basic item (with stable demand); staple goods

1

expression; phraseology

2