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Jilting
- verb - cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly; "jilt a lover or a bride"
Jinxing
- verb - cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
- foredoom to failure; "This project is jinxed!"
Jobbing
- verb - arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"
- profit privately from public office and official business
- work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
Jogging
- verb - continue talking or writing in a desultory manner; "This novel rambles on and jogs"
- even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
- give a slight push to
- run at a moderately swift pace
- run for exercise; "jog along the canal"
- running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise
- stimulate to remember; "jog my memory"
Joining
- verb - be or become joined or united or linked; "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport"
- become part of; become a member of a group or organization; "He joined the Communist Party as a young man"
- cause to become joined or linked; "join these two parts so that they fit together"
- come into the company of; "She joined him for a drink"
- make contact or come together; "The two roads join here"
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet"
Jolting
- verb - causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride"
- disturb (someone's) composure; "The audience was jolted by the play"
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
Joshing
- verb - be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"
Jotting
- verb - a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note
- write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of
Judging
- verb - determine the result of (a competition)
- form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
- pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
Jugging
- verb - lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
- stew in an earthenware jug; "jug the rabbit"