jpdb beta

camp

1

summer festival

7

many; varied; all sorts; crowded; large (e.g. helping)

1

impossible; unlikely; improbable

1

to miss a chance; to miss an opportunity

1

about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite

2

900; nine hundred; (arch.) fool; (arch.) idiot

1

10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various

1

1,000; thousand

1

insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint

1

earnest; sincere; pressing; urgent; pertinent; appropriate

1

to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

2

exhibition game; friendly match; friendly; interleague game between the Central and Pacific baseball leagues

1

to become clumsy; to miss one's aim

1

but then; although; though; reasonable; natural; just

1

(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

1

to furnish; to install; to get someone's agreement; to patronize; to buy usually from the same store

2

bluntly (refusing, etc.); flatly; out of hand; completely

1

smooth

1

some days; several days

1

to do something with painful reluctance; (lit.) to have one's hair pulled from behind

1

quite indifferent; looking blank; looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on

1

insipid; flat; dull; lifeless; listless

1

laws of nature; physical laws; physics

1

to be still half asleep; to be half awake; to be not yet quite awake

1

stroke; caress; soft (object); dreamlike (object); tender (object)

1

Chinese fan palm (Livistona chinensis)

1

to become attached (to); to take (to); to become affectionate (with); to be tamed

2

flopping (e.g. on a bed); scattering (e.g. limbs horizontally)

2

slow; tedious; sluggish; irritating

1

therefore; consequently; accordingly; for that reason

1

to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from

2

mission; delegation; transmission

1

duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck

1

free (of charge); gratuitous

1

all-you-can-eat; eating as much as one likes

1

ticket; coupon; bond; certificate

1

you can do it if you try

1

completely (quitting, etc.); entirely; thoroughly; cleanly (cutting, snapping off, etc.); in a single blow

1

dog; doggy; bow-wow

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from the beginning

1

intention; wish; purpose; mind (to do)

1

to look displeased; to frown; to scowl; to look grave; to look serious

1

ice; ice cream; icecream; (arch.) usurer; (arch.) usury

2

vending machine

2

next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence

1

as usual

2

during

2

tree sparrow (Passer montanus); talkative person; knowledgeable person

3

tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber

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