to have a flag set (indicates the setting of a variable that determines, for example, how a game will end)
sensible; perceptive; quick to understand; understanding; sympathetic
mystery; something inexplicable; unfathomable (of a Buddha's abilities); 10^64 (or 10^80)
route; road; distance travelled in a day; one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s)
to fill a hole with earth
hard to get; hard to come by
calamity; disaster; accident
turret; watchtower; high wooden stage; scaffolding; wooden frame (of a kotatsu); yagura
waypoint (e.g. with a GPS); checkpoint
to pass (the night); to spend; to reveal; to divulge; to prove; to verify
ground; crust (earth); foundation (building, etc.); base; constituency; power base
insincere smile; ingratiating smile; polite smile; forced smile
slack; slackening; sagginess; dullness; letdown; depression
courageous; brave; bold; valiant
constriction; narrow part (in middle); waist (esp. of a woman)
ring; loop (of rope); halo (of an angel)
humanities, social sciences, and fine arts; liberal arts
storage container; preservation container
magnetic field line; magnetic flux line; line of magnetic force
minidisc; MD; missile defense; MD; magnetic disk; MD
artificial intelligence; AI
dissolution; dissolving; solution (e.g. chemical); melting; liquefying; fusion
working; in operation; running; active
intermediate frequency; interferon; impact factor (of an academic journal); interface; index fund
Identification, Friend or Foe; IFF
various; diverse; divergent; each according to one's own wishes
to beat; to attack (an enemy); to do away with; to finish off
flaw; defect; problem; inconvenient
control board; control panel; console
to knock down; to knock out
gorilla (Gorilla spp., esp. western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla)
autonomous; autonomic; self-sustaining; self-directed
to run out of breath; to get breathless; to get puffed (out)
to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to wince; to shrink back
thunderstruck; hit by a thunderbolt; struck by lightning
ranking; toplist (e.g. of WWW sites)
to do something with painful reluctance; (lit.) to have one's hair pulled from behind