jpdb beta

astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum

3

colour; color; hue; tints

13

brilliance; polish; lustre; luster; glossy finish (of photographs)

1

adult; grown-up

1

absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming

1

charm; fascination; glamour; glamor; attraction; appeal

2

until now; so far; up to the present

5

to be harvested; to be reaped; to be yielded; to be able to harvest; to be able to reap; to be able to yield

1

Africa

7

remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively

22

although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish

29

to be surprised; to be astonished

7

rifle; small arms

1

to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy

1

to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)

10

true story

2

smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)

5

mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)

6

to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)

30

to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

30

example; specimen; sample

5

British Museum

1

without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after

4

preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)

2

strange; unconventional; eccentric; odd; odd number

2

talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor

22

always; all the time; never; usual; regular

7

spacious; vast; wide

10

the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life

9

extinction; annihilation; destruction

1

fossil; petrifaction; petrification; fossilization

2

appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style

33

antiquity; ancient times

1

generation; the world; the age

2

the Carboniferous Period

1

stratum; geological formation; layer; bed (coal, gravel, etc.)

1

seventy; 70

3

centimeter; centimetre

1

to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)

10

sky; air; mid-air

15

group; bunch; crowd; group

6

rook

2

state; condition; the way things should be; ideal state; truth

5

to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine

1

even

2

exhilarating; thrilling; intensely pleasurable

1

microscopic

7

stingy; cheap; very frugal

1

is not; am not; are not

13

strange; rare; novel; curious

4