jpdb beta

capital; funds; seed money; asset

1

actual profit; practical use; benefit

1

making (a new suit, dress, etc.); having (something) made; buying new; new tune; new melody; new composition

1

electronics

2

discretion; discretionary power

1

self-interest; selfish desire; greed

1

growth; development; stretching (one's body, e.g. when waking up); (ability to) spread (of paint, cream, etc.); elongation; extension

1

expensive money; dear money; high interest

1

prices of commodities; prices (in general); cost-of-living

1

sharp rise (in prices); steep rise; substantial increase; soaring

1

Manifest Destiny

1

motto; slogan; catchword

1

self-responsibility; on one's own responsibility; at one's own risk

1

to be of no importance

1

to make one's name well known; to gain much fame

1

to fall into ruin; to become dilapidated; to become run-down; to become desolate; to be badly neglected

1

attendant; valet; servant; follower

1

comet

1

tide; current; tendency; trend

1

to follow; to come after; to come next (to); to rank next (to); to rank second (to)

2

to jump over; to leap over; to fly over; to fly across; to jump ahead (of someone); to skip over

1

economic conditions

1

unemployed person

2

ringing; throbbing violently

1

number of cases, incidents, items, messages, accounts, etc.

1

last year

1

physics

1

chemistry

1

three parts; three copies

1

impatiently; eagerly

1

dead center; (right in the) middle; midst; midst (e.g. of a storm); heyday; (the) height (e.g. of a debate)

2

hyena

1

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

1

millennium; millennial kingdom (of Christ)

3

audience; attendance; hearers

4

black hair

4

familiar; well-known; regular (e.g. customer); old acquaintance; old friend; (a) regular

1

180 degrees; complete (about-face; in policy, opinion, etc.); radical (change); hundred-and-eighty degree (turn)

1

to disentangle; to untangle; to break up into pieces; to pick apart; to relieve; to ease

5

to seem ...; to look ...; to appear ...; to feel ...; to behave like ...

17

desktop; desk-top; tabletop; after-dinner speech

1

van; truck; delivery van

1

oar; all; (pulling an) all-nighter; staying up all night

1

to knock down; to bring down

1

dictatorial

1

hegemonism

1

guilty (feeling, conscience, look, etc.); (feeling) uneasy

1

sun; sunshine; sunlight

2

to start sliding; to begin to slide; to begin to slip; to make a start; to start (off); to get under way

1

payment of a sum twice the original; giving back a gift double the value of the one received; repaying twofold; inflicting a revenge twice as hurtful (painful, costly, etc.) as the original misdeed

1