jpdb beta

notes; comment; remark; annotation

2

inheritance; succession; share-alike; inheritance

1

right (to do something); authority; power

6

being adopted into the family of one's bride

2

to enclose; to surround; to shelter (e.g. a criminal); to shield; to keep (e.g. a mistress); to store (vegetables, fruit, etc.)

1

gambling

3

to struggle in the water; to be drowning; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe; to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted

1

arena

2

to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble

2

illegal; unlawful

1

gladiator

1

to kill each other

2

to pile up; to heap up; to stir up; to enliven; to bring to a climax

1

director (of a film, play, etc.)

1

freedom; liberty

6

funds; capital

4

offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)

7

compensation; equivalent value; consideration

8

sale; sales; selling; marketing

4

monopoly; monopolization; exclusivity; hogging; keeping to oneself

2

outside the city; suburbs

4

imperial command

1

opening a business; opening a practice

1

business rival; professional jealousy

1

shutout; shutting out; locking out; shutout; allowing no runs (goals, etc.)

2

small scale

3

regulation; (traffic) policing; control; restriction

1

amount sold; sales; proceeds; takings; turnover

1

rearing from infancy; training from an early age (e.g. an apprentice); teaching from an early stage (e.g. a subordinate)

1

crumbling; collapse; ruin; has-been; wannabe

2

use of force

1

(stand to) attention!; standing at attention

1

to give; to do ...

1

backing; support; backer; shield that protects one's back

1

as one pleases; self-indulgently; freely; without restraint; at will

2

capable; able; talented; promising

1

capable person; talented person; human resources; personnel

6

such; like that; in that way

1

wide-awake to one's interests

2

spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence

3

meeting again; reunion

1

residence; mansion

4

insertion; letter drop; sending to a prisoner; thing sent to a prisoner; supply of provisions, refreshments, etc. to someone carrying out a task

1

to lie down (and rest)

2

middle of the night; dead of night

2

(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown

1

to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)

7

eating between meals; snacking

1

absence; disregard; indifference

4

simple; plain; modest; frugal; reserved

3