jpdb beta

worried look; concerned expression

1

speck; dot; point; only a little; particle; only one

1

profitable plan; good plan

2

there's no knowing; there's no telling; it's anyone's guess; who knows?

1

concession; conciliation; compromise

5

Elio; Helyot

22

gossip

1

indescribable; having no way to express

1

emerging market; emerging nation; emergent nation; developing country; developing nation

2

good story; heartwarming story; good prospect (e.g. marriage, business)

1

friendly; amicable

2

tragedy; tragic drama; tragic play; tragedy; calamity; disaster

3

the rise of the curtain; opening (of play); beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)

1

unreasonable demand

1

home country; one's own country; suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state); colonizing country; country of one's ancestors; this country

2

to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)

1

novelizing; novelising; adapting a movie, game, etc. into a book

1

bestseller

2

each nation; many nations; many countries

2

drama; play; powerful drug

2

performance (of a play, opera, etc.); staging; presentation

1

cannot be undone; can't be recovered from

1

novel; (short) story

1

inhuman; heinous; atrocious

1

verbal gaffe; verbal slip; slip of the tongue; using improper words

2

response (felt in the hands); resistance; reaction; response; effect

1

bad; wrong; evil; no good; wicked; reprehensible

2

to cease; to desist; to cut it out; to lay off (an activity); to drop (a subject) to abolish; to resign

1

shaking; shake; unsettledness; instability; existence of multiple spellings, pronunciations, usages, etc. for a single word

1

to lay the blame on; to put the fault on

1

like that; so

1

to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby)

1

mistake; blunder; slipup

1

to kill by hitting; to beat to death; to slaughter

1

military gains; war results; fruit of battle

2

insincerity; dishonesty; untruthfulness; bad faith

1

being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter

1

before long

1

doesn't amount to doing (something); not significant enough to require (something); unnecessary

1

autumn; fall

1

warm; mild; temperate

1

climate

1

fully prepared; all ready

1

occupying; having (an area) all to oneself; military occupation; possession; capture

5

to forestall; to beat to the punch; to anticipate; to play the first move (e.g. in go)

1

custom

1

fruit of love; children

1

kitchen

1

sexual excitement; estrus; oestrus; rut; (coming into) heat

1

preemptive strike; preemptive attack; first strike

2