projected to win; sure to be elected; home free
affirmative vote; yes vote; aye
watermark (in a stamp, banknote, etc.); openwork (engraving, carving, etc.)
to look down on; to treat with contempt; to treat disparagingly; to sneer at
expiration of a term; becoming overdue
change of government; regime change
to move up (e.g. date, rank, order); to be advanced; to be carried (of a number in addition)
role of a villain (film, drama, etc.); bad-guy role; social outcast role
inner-city area; city center
Ghanzi (Botswana); Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)
person who avoids others; social outcast
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)
cram school; private tutoring school; juku
to be powered on; to be turned on
personal identification number; PIN; password number
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
weight (e.g. paperweight); pressing down; keeping control; exercising authority; having self-control; exercising self-discipline
to get flustered; to get flurried; to get agitated; to become impatient; to hurry
ideal land; earthly paradise; Utopia; Arcadia
stock; share; stump; (clump of) roots; plant with attached roots or stem; strain (of bacteria, etc.); stock company
(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence
next; next person; room adjoining a noble's parlor
fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha); person of no worth; pisher; scrub