jpdb beta

respect and affection; love and respect

1

princess; daughter of a nobleman

1

vassal; retainer

1

to wait upon; to serve

1

to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off

3

ball-point pen

1

no comment

1

to get a laugh

1

opening to the public; making available to the public; putting on display; exhibiting; showing (play, movie, etc.); holding (interview, etc.)

1

live broadcast

1

waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away

1

favour; favor; favourite; favorite; patron; supporter

5

choral chanting; chanting in chorus (e.g. at a demonstration)

2

to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)

3

young girl; lass; adolescent female

4

to talk on and on; to rattle on; to keep on talking (without pause)

1

intelligence

1

category

1

to laugh scornfully

4

to ask the opinion of (a superior)

1

to meet fortuitously (e.g. running into an old friend); to meet by chance; to happen across

2

opening to the public (e.g. garden, etc.); read permission: anybody

2

pushy; pushing; self-assertive

1

stage play

1

in general; generally; mostly; gist; point; main idea

2

alternately; by turns

1

going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease

1

noise (usu. unpleasant); interference (e.g. radio); static; gossip; irresponsible criticism

1

interval

1

curtain; bunting; act (in play)

1

gentle; mild; meek; tender

2

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

11

pen

2

familiar; well-known; regular (e.g. customer); old stand-by

2

well done; good job

1

morale (of troops, team, etc.); esprit de corps

1

manly; brave; heroic

6

painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate

1

to hide oneself

1

to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter

1

further; above; anymore

8

to cling to; to hold on to; to grapple; to set about doing; to begin; to take hold of

1

to use tact; to exercise discretion; to be tactful; to be thoughtful; to have the sense (to do); to take a hint

1

what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels

1

dirty-looking; filthy; disgusting; squalid

1

outlet (e.g. for water or gas); market (for something); outlet (e.g. for excess energy); vent (e.g. for emotions)

2

to blush; to have flushed cheeks

1

holy mother; birth mother of a holy man (or woman); Virgin Mary

2

(in a) long time; long time (ago); while (ago); long ago; long while (ago); (in a) long while

1

seashore; seaside; beach

1