jpdb beta

collecting; assembling

2

gift; premium; prize (lottery drawing, pachinko, etc.); party favor (favour)

3

quirk of fate; curious coincidence; happy chance

1

three flat objects (sheets of paper, pieces of cloth, etc.)

1

lochia; post-natal vaginal discharge

1

womanly; feminine; womanish; effeminate

1

gently (raining); drizzling; moist; damp

1

long spell of rain

1

no matter for; without regard to; whatever the ...

2

Thursday

1

Culture Day (national holiday; November 3)

2

three-day weekend; long weekend; three holidays in a row

17

fine day; clear day; formal occasion

2

the third

2

day after day; every day

2

gloomy; melancholy; pessimistic

1

to stagnate; to settle (at the bottom); to deposit; to become sluggish; to become dull; to be delayed

2

to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist

1

savings

1

sand; grit

2

speaking by proxy; speaking for (someone else); payment by proxy; compensation by proxy; acting for (someone else); carrying out (on someone's behalf)

3

decline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing

2

one cause; one reason; one factor

3

the whole world; the whole country; society; the public; supremacy over a nation; government of a country; having one's own way

2

ugly woman

2

to get carried away; to become over-excited; to push one's luck; to push a good thing too far

1

to discharge (e.g. effluent)

1

to give shelter to; to lodge; to put up; to accommodate

1

to miss a chance to ask; to miss an opportunity to ask; to forget to ask

1

signs of rain; threat of rain

1

suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly

1

lone wolf; loner; self-reliant person

1

to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with

2

to sit at a desk (to study); to set to work on revision, homework, etc.

2

your home; your residence; you (referring to one's equal; epistolary style)

1

natural disaster; cataclysm

2

library (usu. single-room); small library

1

psychology

3

entering an institution; beginning training; primer; manual; introduction (to)

1

learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics

1

dietetics; nutritional science

1

et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth

1

to beat into shape

2

to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon

1

to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on

1

to assign; to set aside

1

reading (books)

3

advice

1

psychological warfare

1

why; how

1