secretary; councillor; councilor
owlet moth (members of the family Noctuidae); noctuid
airhead (of a male); ditz
spot-billed duck (Anas poecilorhyncha)
cloud of dust (sand, etc.)
wheat straw; barley straw
emphatic sentence-ending particle
Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
Chinese martial arts; kung fu; wushu; kenpō (martial arts); kempo
with no effort at all; easily
quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive
to mark the passage of time; to let (feel) time pass
to take by storm (e.g. a castle); to assault; to capture; to reduce
disturbance; agitation; commotion; upheaval; riot
moron; idiot; stupid person
to avoid misfortune; to escape danger
to have one's hands slip (and drop something)
to be doing; to be in the process of doing
to pose as; to (successfully) impersonate; to pretend to be; to (completely) become; to (fully) turn into
moment by moment; hour by hour
oasis; OASYS (Fujitsu WP system)
to lure someone; to entice someone
cancelling (a debt); forgiving (a debt); being even; forgetting (what was said or done); pretending (something never happened)
defending to the last; desperate defence; stubborn defence
miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)
loss; feeling of loss; Los Angeles
as if (something untrue were actually true); like hell (e.g. "like hell I will")
undulation; winding; meandering; swell (of waves); surge; billow
to reject; to repulse; to repel; to bounce back; to counterattack; to strike back