noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

noun:

• Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil)

noun:

• texture; "grain" of a fabric or cloth; direction of the loom or weave in a roll of fabric

noun:

• age of the moon; number of days since the new moon
• age in months (esp. of an infant)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be quiet (due to lack of activity); to be in a slump (of a business) - idiom ➜ 閑古鳥

noun / ~する noun:

• playing with something with one's fingers
• searching with one's fingers (e.g. in the dark)

noun:

• nursery school sleepover; one night sleepover at school in summer vacation of last year of nursery school

noun:

• Mahāraurava; The Hell of Great Wailing; The Great Screaming Hell; the fifth of eight hot hells in Buddhism - Buddhism term ➜ 奈落【ならく】

noun / ~する noun:

• running (for election); coming forward as a candidate
• going on horseback
• going in person
• letting out a horse; taking out a horse - archaism

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stay long; to hang around; to hang out; to frequent
• to be immersed (in water) for a long time; to soak

noun:

• player's career; one's career in sport; one's career as an athlete - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be submerged; to be soaked
• to be pickled; to be well seasoned - esp. 漬かる
• to be totally immersed (in a condition, e.g. laziness)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back - onomatopoeia
• action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; (with a) bob of the head - onomatopoeia

noun:

• telephone appointment; arranging meetings and appointments in advance by phone - abbreviation
• cold-calling to get potential customers to agree to meet a salesman; carrying out market surveys by phone

noun:

• Acanthurus (type genus of surgeonfishes and tangs in the family Acanthuridae which have a pair of sharp spines on either side of the base of the tail)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off

noun / suffix noun:

• part; segment; share; ration ➜ 分の
• rate
• degree; one's lot; one's status; relation; duty; kind; lot ➜ 身分

suffix noun:

• relationship; connection; correspondence

noun / suffix noun:

• in proportion to; just as much as

noun:

• numbered ticket (e.g. to determine order of service in shop, etc.)
• zone ticket; boarding ticket; bus ticket dispensed at boarding, used to show where one boarded

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to boil up; to come to the boil; to seethe - esp. 沸き上がる
• to arise; to break out
• to get excited; to be in uproar

noun:

• fold; pleat; gathers; tuck
• folds (e.g of a mountain); crease
• (hidden) detail; nuance; shade; wrinkle (e.g. in logic)
• lamella; gill (of a mushroom)

noun:

• hidden village (esp. hidden retreat for nobles or refuge for soldiers of a defeated army); isolated village
• legendary land (deep in mountains or underground); Shangri-La

expression:

• fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing - idiom

noun:

• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

prefix noun:

• certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified

noun:

• evening moon; moon that can only be seen in the early hours of the night (esp. from the 2nd to the 7th of the eight month) ➜ 夕月

noun:

• favourable terms; favorable terms; favourable conditions; favorable conditions; place in the sun