adjectival noun:

• overly serious; serious to a fault; humorless

noun:

• pages (in a book) out of order due to an error in binding

noun / ~する noun:

• burial (disposal of a body) by exposure to the elements; aerial sepulture (burial)

noun:

• college student who is merely marking time to get into a better college - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• ending without incident; being successfully brought to completion; finishing something without a hitch - four character idiom

expression:

• quick to take a hint; very responsive; quick on the uptake ➜ ツーカー

noun:

• link to (a site, as used in page ranking that site)

noun:

• tathagatagarbha (buddha-womb, the potential within all living things to become a buddha) - Buddhism term

noun:

• green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus, sometimes considered to be a subspecies of Chlorocebus aethiops) ➜ サバンナモンキー

noun:

• Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive Zazen sitter) ➜ 座禅

noun:

• bald spot (e.g. on a pet due to injury, stress, etc.); bald patch - colloquialism - obscure term

noun:

• addendum (to a treaty or contract); annex; annexure; appendix; subsidiary clause
• subordinate clause - Linguistics term

noun:

• love that is motivated by job-hunting; using sex to get a job - abbreviation ➜ リクルートラブ

expression:

• to study and not think is a waste; learning without thinking is useless - from The Analects of Confucius - proverb

expression / adjective:

• depending largely on; playing a large role in; due largely to - as ～によるところが大きい

noun:

• fish going downstream (to spawn)
• dead fish
• fish that moves into deeper waters (to avoid the cold)

noun / ~する noun:

• thoroughness; completeness; consistency
• thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

noun / ~する noun:

• admission (e.g. to a training institution, research establishment, social welfare facility, etc.); entrance
• imprisonment; internment; confinement

noun:

• starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off ➜ ご破算
• clearing an abacus - orig. meaning ➜ ご破算

noun:

• infectious disease which by law a physician must report to the authorities within 24 hours of diagnosis

noun:

• surface rights (i.e. the right to build a house, etc. on land owned by another); superficies

noun:

• red sea bream (i.e. the tai, Pagrus major) - colloquialism
• fish given to a tournament winner as congratulations - Sumo, Food term

noun:

• being tough on the outside but soft at heart; a faint-hearted person pretending to be brave - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• killing oneself by jumping (e.g. from a tall building); plunging to one's death

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to blindstitch the inside of a fold with (equally spaced) threadings (i.e. pulling shoe lacing tight)