noun / ~する noun:

• looking up while hitting the ball; keeping one's chin up and not looking at the ball while hitting it - Sports term - From English "head up"

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (the parts one is interested in); reading here and there; skimming through; browsing
• reading word by word; reading only the parts one can understand

noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun:

• speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language

noun:

• telop; television opaque projector; device used to broadcast onscreen text (e.g. subtitles, captions)
• onscreen text and images (e.g. subtitles, captions, scrolling tickers, logos)

noun:

• secretary-general; general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of the Democratic Republic of North Korea and the People's Republic of China) ➜ 主席

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to pull; to draw; to pull tight
• to string (lines); to run (cable); to stretch
• to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve)
• to drag; to haul; to tow
• to lead (e.g. one's followers)
• to take someone somewhere (e.g. a suspect to the police)
• to tempt into joining; to strongly invite to join
• to delay; to prolong
• to lengthen the pronunciation (of a word)
• to quote; to cite; to reference
• to pull the ball - Baseball term
• to wear; to put on

expression:

• rubbernecking; the thrill of looking at something scary or unpleasant and wanting to look at it all the more because it is scary or unpleasant

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to cut down; to prune; to reduce; to cut and hang down; to cut shorter
• to round down (e.g. fraction)

noun:

• (possession of) one feudal domain and one castle; being independent (acting without compromise or assistance) - four character idiom
• establishing only one castle in each feudal domain (edict issued by the shogunate in 1615)

noun:

• mixture of lime and fermented indigo leaves after the indigo dye has precipitated from the leaves (byproduct in the process of creating indigo dye)

noun:

• three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)

noun / suffix noun:

• degree; extent; amount; balance; state; condition

noun:

• (health) condition; state of health

noun / ~する noun:

• adjustment; moderation; regulation
• addition and subtraction

suffix noun:

• slight sign of ...; slight state of ...
• just right for ...

adjective:

• few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom

noun:

• (my) daughter
• girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman) ➜ 子【こ】

noun:

• seat
• location (of a gathering, etc.); place
• position; post

noun / ~する noun:

• claim; demand; charge; application; request; billing (for a service)

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• reverse; opposite

adjectival noun / noun:

• converse (of a hypothesis, etc.)

prefix noun:

• inverse (function) - Mathematics term

noun / ~する noun:

• assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• generation (e.g. power)

noun / ~する noun:

• sending a telegram; telegraphing - obsolete term

noun:

• foot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base

adverb:

• once
• for a short time; briefly; temporarily

noun:

• one morning - archaism

noun:

• karma (i.e. actions committed in a former life) - Buddhism term ➜ 果報

noun / ~する noun:

• performance; appearance (in a stage, film, TV show, etc.)

noun:

• gradations (on a ruler, thermometer, etc.); division; scale