defense; defence; protection
one-two punch; one-two (soccer pass); wall pass; one-two finish; competitors from the same country or team finishing first and second; one ball two strikes
aspiration; volunteering; desire; application
habit; behavior; behaviour; trait
interception (email); wiretap; bug
to have (something) innate; to be born with
discharge; evacuation; emission (e.g. of CO2); ejection; excretion
to get someone to say; to make someone say
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
succession to another's professional name
hard worker; hardworking person
to break; to break down; to be crazy; to be nuts; to be infatuated (with); to be crazy (about)
ecstatic; excited; painfully (of a headache); stinging; ice-cold (beer, etc.); noisily (chirping, barking, etc.)
two parts; two copies; the second part
opaque; obscure; opacity; obscurity; unclear; unpredictable
(approximate) age; years; elderly; old; older (than); senior
flag; boolean value; something that foreshadows a future event or outcome (in a film, novel, etc.)
extremely high speed; super speed
binding tightly; tight binding; (sexual) bondage
unqualified; unlicensed; uncertified
trade; business; commerce; occupation; calling; profession
row house built on top of a castle wall; row houses surrounding a main residence; having great knowledge about Buddhism; Vaisravana (one of the Four Heavenly Kings)
moderate; reserved; modest; temperate; restrained; low-key
jiangshi; Chinese hopping vampire; reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore
Chinese (lineage, ancestry, ethnicity, etc.); Sino-
to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (boredom, sorrow, etc.); to conceal (e.g. one's grief with a smile); to hide; to shift (the conversation)
fetish; passion; enthusiasm
in the city; in the community
engine; agency; organisation; system; facility
police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods)
occupying; having (an area) all to oneself; military occupation; possession; capture
intelligence gathering; information gathering
to find (after searching everywhere); to locate; to discover
capital punishment; death penalty; maximum penalty; ultimate punishment
two people alike; two of a kind; kissing cousins; two people cut from the same cloth
to break by hand (e.g. a flower); to break off (a twig); to pluck (a flower, a bud); to make a young woman one's own thing
kind-hearted; compassionate; charitable
superior airs; air of importance; overemphasis