expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be (in contrast to something that is not the case) - である with は ➜ である

noun:

• par save (in golf, number of shots above par for that hole)

noun:

• full interchange (an interchange that has exits and entrances in both directions)

noun:

• part alternation mark (symbol indicating the following words are taken from a song or that the person saying the words is singing); Unicode U+303D symbol

noun:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs)

expression / noun:

• heavily polluted, radioactive rain sometimes following an atmospheric nuclear explosion (esp. that of Hiroshima)

noun:

• dwarf bamboo (varieties that thrive in western Japan)

noun:

• on par (in golf, meeting par for that hole) - From English "par on"

noun:

• lucid dream (dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming)

noun:

• Clostridium botulinum (bacteria that causes botulism)

noun:

• sea sand (sand collected from the ocean floor, as opposed to that which is used as an ingredient in concrete)

noun:

• Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China between the 3rd & 5th centuries: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)

noun:

• marginal seal (special seal affixed into the margins of an official document to indicate that any later revisions to the document are valid)

noun:

• homolecithal egg (egg having a yolk that is evenly distributed throughout) ➜ 端黄卵

noun:

• cap cloud (cloud shaped like an Asian bamboo hat that forms at the peak of a tall mountain)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's distance from someone (due to fear or because that person is superior) - idiom

expression:

• enter through the narrow gate (for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction); enter ye in at the strait gate - from Matthew 7:13 - proverb

noun:

• yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram) ➜ 卦

noun:

• rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)

noun:

• quasi-synonym (word that has a similar meaning to another, but is not interchangeable) - Linguistics term ➜ 同義語

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a flag set (indicates the setting of a variable that determines, for example, how a game will end) - slang - IT term

noun:

• middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); junior high school ➜ 高等部

noun:

• withered reeds (esp. reeds that have withered in the winter)

noun:

• coherence theory (theory that a proposition is true if it corresponds with a specified set of other propositions) ➜ 対応説

noun:

• building for observing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. (sometimes specifically that used by the emperor on the greater palace grounds) - archaism ➜ 武徳殿