jpdb beta

errand; mission; messenger; bearer; familiar spirit

4

to be onto a good thing; to make money without working; to line one's pockets

1

to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation

1

to praise; to extol; to hail; to laud; to celebrate

2

administration of justice; judicature

1

useful; helpful

1

behaviour; behavior; conduct

1

to sell over to

1

the lion's share; the cream

1

to detest; to abhor; to loathe

1

absence; disregard; indifference

3

pasturing (e.g. cattle); letting (an animal) run loose; letting (someone) do as they please; leaving (something) to take its own course; letting (an issue) go unchecked

1

to be onto a good thing; to make money without working; to line one's pockets

1

to abolish; to abandon; to repeal; to dethrone; to depose

1

skill

1

perusal; one reading; reading through (once)

1

conservatives

3

accepting a bribe

1

embezzlement; misappropriation; usurpation

1

to let one's guard down

1

to weigh (one thing against another); to compare (the relative merits of two options); (lit.) to weigh (something) on scales; to try to have it both ways; to play a double game; to have two strings to one's bow

1

to select; to pick out

2

to covet; to crave; to indulge in; to do ceaselessly; to eat greedily; to devour

3

to bow; to worship; to receive; to see

1

be (that) as it may; having said that

4

a quarrel; argument

1

to hold (a ceremony); to perform

6

next day; following day

1

entering (government) service; attendance (at one's office); presenting oneself for duty

2

lawless people; gang; malcontents; recalcitrants

1

centrifuge

5

skeptical; sceptical; incredulous

2

conspiracy; collusion; complicity

1

large (amount of money); huge; hefty; expensive

2

bribe; sweetener; douceur

1

to reply; to respond; to answer; to talk back; to retort

1

having no memory of (having done something); having nothing to do with; having no knowledge of; knowing nothing about

2

February; second month of the lunar calendar

2

purple vestment (traditionally awarded by the imperial household); high-ranking priest's purple robe

3

dinner (esp. a formal one)

1

book; register

1

leaving early

1

to explain clearly; to give detailed instructions

2

to know shame; to have a sense of shame; to be ashamed

1

putting an entire family to death; eradicating a whole family

4

to criticize harshly; to blame; to accuse; to urge; to press

2

being surrounded by enemies on all sides; being betrayed (forsaken) by everybody

1

all means

1

to hate the very sight (of); to hold a grudge (against); to treat (someone) like an enemy; to bear constant enmity (towards); to be gunning for; to have it in for

1

excess; surplus; superabundance; overabundance

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