expression:

• the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long; the well with sweet water will be the first to run dry [literal] - proverb

noun:

• The Yalta Agreement (secret American-British-Soviet agreement wherein the Soviets agreed to attack Japan within three months of the German surrender: Feb. 11, 1945) ➜ ヤルタ会談

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to hear; to be told; to know - humble language
• to receive (order); to undertake; to comply; to take (a reservation, etc.)

noun:

• outrider; herald
• rikishi who leads the yokozuna to the ring prior to his ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to tread (a nail) into the sole of one's foot; to tread through (the floor)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to collect the ashes of the deceased
• to look after someone's affairs after he dies

expression / ichidan verb:

• to let slip a secret; to let the cat out of the bag ➜ 問うに落ちず語るに落ちる

noun:

• rising diagonally up and to the right
• growing; expanding; soaring

noun:

• monks who practise austerity to the point of death and mummification

noun / ~する noun:

• song and dance performed as an offering to the gods ➜ 神楽

noun:

• festival for requests and expressions of thanks to the gods (Okinawa)

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross)

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross) ➜ 赤菱

noun:

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (United Nations, 1948)

noun:

• K-T boundary (between the Cretaceous Period and the Tertiary Period)

noun:

• heloderm (any venomous lizard of genus Heloderma, incl. the gila monster and the beaded lizard)

noun:

• idol (esp. in the philosophy of Francis Bacon: idols of the tribe, cave, market, and theater) - From Latin "idola"

noun / ~する noun:

• motivating the troops on the battlefield with war drums and war cries - obscure term
• making an uproar - obscure term

noun:

• prisoner; captive; prisoner of war
• Emishi allied with the Japanese during the Nara and Heian periods ➜ えみし

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)

noun / ~する noun:

• forward inclination (of the body); bending forward
• anteversion - Medicine term

noun:

• (pair of) bellows - Buddhism term ➜ 踏鞴
• lungs (of the body)

noun / ~する noun:

• switching off (e.g. electricity); turning off (e.g. water)

noun:

• off-season - abbreviation ➜ シーズンオフ
• offset - abbreviation ➜ オフセット
• off-road - abbreviation ➜ オフロード

noun:

• starting with vigor but ending with no action; raising one's voice (in a call to action) and then failing to take action