jpdb beta

sensible; perceptive; quick to understand; understanding; sympathetic

1

next year

2

zealous; enthusiastic; ardent; fervent; keen; eager

1

to be absorbed in reading

1

quietly; slowly; gracefully

1

thank you for waiting; sorry to have kept you waiting

2

to become tense; to be tightened; to become firm (e.g. body)

1

to grasp back; to squeeze back; to grab back

2

cool; chilly; feeling nice and cold

2

scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)

1

to memorize; to memorise; to commit to memory; to learn by heart; to bear in mind; to remember

1

last look; farewell look

1

to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)

4

foot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base

1

madder (esp. Japanese madder, Rubia argyi); madder (red color)

1

thin or diluted ink

1

to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with

2

to take time

2

to walk down the road

1

people; men and women; each person; everybody

1

(approximate) age; years; elderly; old; older (than); senior

1

small talk; chat; gossip

2

old tale; folk tale; legend; reminiscence

1

to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically; to become successful and well known

1

sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt

3

good evening

1

acquaintance

1

to be conspicuous; to stand out

1

look (in someone's eyes); expression (of the eyes); eyes

2

at once; immediately; without delay; promptly

1

water's surface

4

innumerable; countless; numberless

1

light; faint; pale; fleeting

3

fantastic; magical; wondrous; whimsical; fairytale-like; romantic

1

site; point on a map; spot

1

bank; coast; shore

1

to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path

1

this world; this life; world of the living

2

light; illumination; glow; lamp; light

1

to look at; to gaze; to stare at

1

ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly

6

before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand

1

to be temperate in; to refrain; to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number); to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for

1

to impress; to move one's heart; to touch (a person's heart)

1

waterside; waterfront

1

between life and death

1

to compare (something) to; to liken; to speak figuratively; to use a simile; to use a metaphor

2

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

1

other side; opposite side; other party

1

the other world; the next world; the world beyond; world after death

1