ratification; confirmation
transmission and reception; sending and receiving
gentlemen; men; the men's (sign on toilet, bathroom, etc. doors)
to like; to love; to be fond of
disposition; inclination; characteristic; sexual disposition; fetish
electric shock; blitz; lightning attack; sudden and without warning; shocking
useless object; deadwood; white elephant; boondoggle
artificial satellite; man-made satellite
exactly; nicely; to a tee; to be fitting
Eh?; What?; Come on!; Damn!
meaning; connotation; denotation
great disaster; catastrophe; train wreck
epidemic; plague; pestilence
mass communication; mass media
unconnected; weakly related; alien; having little prospect of marriage
single cell; simple-minded; one-track-minded
point in common; common feature
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
to inquire (about); to enquire; to ask; to interrogate; to question intensely; to grill (someone about something)
to become defiant; to fight back; to turn upon; to take the offensive
invisible; unseen; vague; mysterious; imaginary
trio; gang of three; threesome
fighting windmills; tilting at windmills; mimicking a wrestling match by oneself (as a form of street performance, etc.)
female elementary school student; JavaScript; JS
undeveloped (countries); backward; unentered
restoration (buildings, art, vehicles, etc.); (system) restore; recovery (file system, etc.)
Japanese chimera; mythical creature with a monkey's head, tanuki's body, tiger's limbs, and a snake tail; White's thrush (Zoothera dauma); mysterious person; person of unknown character
to grill again; to rebake; to rehash; to rework; to refurbish
to press forward; to forge ahead; to push on
circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period
deformity; malformation; strange shape; unusual shape