jpdb beta

disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination

10

guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper

4

to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued

1

lewdness; lewd person; pervert; lecher

3

clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect

5

childish prank; mischief

1

payment in advance; advance payment; payment on delivery (e.g. business-reply mail, collect phone calls); forerunner

1

over-familiar

1

to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved

1

to be amazed; to be shocked; to be astonished; to be astounded; to be disgusted; to be exasperated

3

is something wrong?; what's wrong?; what's the matter?; slightest; mere; trivial

2

to say something is all right; to give the all-clear (e.g. to do something)

1

show; exhibition; spectacle

1

to lose focus; to let one's mind wander; to relax one's attention

1

general idea; concept; notion

1

to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on

1

to get carried away; to get overly elated; to become over-excited; to get up to speed; to move into gear

2

to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree

5

insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy

3

liking; taste; choice

3

pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas

2

to make tea

5

don't worry about it; it's nothing; don't give it a thought

1

meanwhile; in the meantime

2

I'm sorry to have kept you waiting

1

handmade; homegrown; hand-crafted; homemade

2

obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of restaurants)

1

ahem

5

to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show

2

to slurp; to sip (loudly); to sniffle; to sniff

3

first thing in the morning

1

great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty

1

talk (esp. by a talk-show host, or by a stage musician to the audience between songs); banter; talk show; toque

1

going down; fall; knocking down (in boxing); flooring; being out of action (due to illness, exhaustion, etc.); being down (e.g. with a cold); going down (of a computer system, server, etc.)

1

gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees

8

that is to say; so that means

5

lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)

2

end; verge; extremity; miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)

2

instability; insecurity; crankiness

1

to mutter; to murmur; to grumble; to tweet (Twitter)

1

carefree; free from worry

2

permission; approval; authorization; to permit; to authorize

3

to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)

3

and then; after that

3

cake or snack served with tea

7

meek; quiet; docile; mysterious; marvelous; marvellous

1

variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.

1

indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive

13

to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into

4

immortal; undying; indestructible

1