jpdb beta

reality; actuality; hard fact

4

great detective

1

fictitious; imaginary; fanciful; aerial; overhead

2

several (levels, floors)

1

knowing; (an) acquaintance

1

what the?; what's going on?; what's this?

1

method; process; manner; way; means; technique

5

precise; accurate; appropriate; exactly the right

2

to the last; persistency; thoroughness

1

fiction

1

meaning; point (e.g. of a statement); gist; goal; intent; object

1

member; the membership

2

futures; credit (buying); stretching; total (preceding counter, unit, etc.); aggregate

1

idea

1

to be able (to); to be possible (to)

6

direct; immediate; personal; firsthand

1

good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response

1

important; momentous; essential; principal; major

4

in; at; on; as for; regarding; with regards to

1

Pygmalion

1

meal; dinner; diet

3

to take someone (to some place); to take someone along; to lead someone away

1

store; shop

1

is that so?

2

to hate; to detest

2

satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client

1

woman

2

novel; (short) story

11

some time ago; recently; lately; last (Sunday, etc.); previous

1

way of calling

1

wine

1

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

1

waiter

2

to obey respectfully; to humble oneself; to sit straight (upright, respectfully, attentively)

1

rude; impolite; mannerless; snotty

1

first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole

5

dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip; going the long way round; making a detour

2

modus operandi; criminal technique; trick

16

(giving) instruction; initiation

1

to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)

4

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

11

to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)

2

prediction; estimation

1

go that far; to that extent

4

to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)

2

thief; burglar; robber; theft; burglary; robbery

1

research establishment; research institute; laboratory

1

dispute; strife; quarrel; dissension; conflict; rivalry

1

cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)

3

(sudden) change; reversal; turn-around; coming from behind (baseball)

1