number of persons; personnel
competent; suitable; qualified
(degree of) risk; riskiness; danger
(in) secrecy; behind closed doors
antecedents; ancestor; previous position; previous existence; predecessor organization; predecessor organisation
independence; self-reliance; independence (e.g. of a nation); freedom; separation; isolation
court lady; lady-in-waiting
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
extraordinary; exceptional; unprecedented; solecistic; non-standard; irregular
cannot be helped; unavoidable
one (thing); one piece; one item
common; ordinary; fair (e.g. fight); gracious; frank; open
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
sword (esp. a large, double-edged one); blade; bayonet; swordsmanship; stinger; ovipositor
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext; excuse; grounds (for)
face; mask; face guard; striking the head (in kendo); surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect
guarding; guard; railway bridge (over a road); (railroad) overpass; flyover
elite; best; pick; cream of the crop
(not) even with; (not) even using
to sense; to suspect; to get an inkling (of something); to get wind of; to smell (e.g. danger); to become aware of (e.g. a plot)
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
live decoy (for hunting); decoy; bait; lure
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
field; field; meadow; field (of interest, study, etc.); field; field (in a form, web page, etc.)
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
impromptu; improvised; extempore; instant (e.g. ramen)
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
stereoscopy; three-dimensional vision
somewhere; in some respects; in some way
10,000; ten thousand; 10^4
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
long-running (TV, radio) program