jpdb beta

penny candy; cheap individually wrapped sweets

3

purple smoke; tobacco smoke

1

to sway to and fro; to drift about; to flutter; to be fickle; to be irresolute; to vacillate

1

ammonia

1

meow; miaow; cat; kitty; pussy cat

1

passing each other (without meeting); entering somewhere just after someone had left; coming in just as someone had gone out; inserting in the wrong order

1

refugee; displaced person; person inconvenienced by (lack of something, etc.); person unable to satisfactorily (marry, shop, etc.); person who is stuck (in a place or situation)

1

helpless; forlorn; hopeless; unpromising; lonely; discouraging

1

back (of a chair); backrest

1

just what you'd expect from ...; that's just like (him, her, etc.); that's (exactly) why ...; that's (precisely) the reason ...

1

depressing; dark (e.g. story); grim (e.g. expression); irritating; annoying; tedious (work, person, etc.)

1

voice training; vocal exercises

2

10,000; ten thousand; 10^4

1

with a bonk; with a thump; with a klunk; with a rap

3

to read and understand; to interpret (e.g. a difficult text); to read deeply; to decipher; to decode

4

riddle; puzzle; enigma

2

hypnopaedia; hypnopedia; sleep-learning

1

to forget everything; to lose one's memory (e.g. of a period); to black out

2

before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to; all of a sudden

5

to pass; to pass by

3

snow country; snowy region

1

once and for all; completely; spotlessly

2

icicle; ice pillar (for cooling a room); (arch.) ice

1

thump; clang; clank

1

surreptitious glance; looking furtively

1

to settle peacefully; to work out peacefully; to come to an amicable solution; to become reconciled

3

to change one's way of thinking; to switch the direction of one's thoughts; to put one's focus on a new subject; to adopt a new frame of mind

2

what the?; what's that?; what are you doing?; what's going on?

2

to sidle up to

1

in all; in total; collectively; in addition; besides; at the same time

1

large tree

1

woodcutter; lumberjack; logger

1

to be tired of hearing

1

after rain comes sunshine; this too shall pass; (lit.) there is no rain that does not stop

1

broom

15

from here; from this place

1

to crack jokes

2

to take a pinch of something (e.g. salt); to pick up in one's fingers

1

journalist

2

light; easy; non-serious; minor

1

deliberately; intentionally; on purpose; purposely

1

difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect

4

high place; high ground; height; broad (point of) view

1

henchman; follower; (arch.) adopted child

1

retainer; vassal; follower

1

phantom; vision; something fleeting; short-lived dream; fabled item; mythical thing

5

to concede one is entirely in the wrong (for the sake of argument)

1

integrity; consistency; conformity; compliance

1

as one pleases; irresponsibility; free-for-all

1

in this manner; in this way; like this

2