expression / adjective:

• lost for words; not knowing what to say by way of excuse (refutation)

noun / ~の noun:

• woman who missed the chance of getting married (because one is too old)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• clapping with wooden clappers (to signal the beginning or end of a performance) - obscure term

noun:

• section of a room next to the alcove (where shelves are often placed)

noun:

• standing (of a legal case, e.g. whether there are grounds to prosecute)

noun:

• indicative (kanji whose shape is based on logical representation of an abstract idea)

noun:

• Wednesday - abbreviation ➜ 水曜日
• shaved ice (served with flavored syrup) ➜ 氷水
• water (fifth of the five elements) ➜ 五行

noun:

• Piltdown man (manufactured fossil of a fraudulent ape-human missing link, Eoanthropus dawsoni) - obscure term - From Latin "Eoanthropus" ➜ ピルトダウン人

noun:

• outline of a solitary fish (as seen through the water when fishing, etc.)

noun:

• twenty-eight mansions of Chinese astronomy (constellations dividing the ecliptic into 28 positions)

noun:

• (printed) itinerary
• road map; program (for the solution of a political problem, etc.) ➜ ロードマップ

noun:

• Bird Week (starting on May 10th of each year) ➜ 愛鳥週間

noun:

• Vaishya; Vaisya (member of India's merchant-and-farmer caste)

noun:

• soup of soumen noodles and various ingredients in a soy sauce broth

noun:

• mille crepe (French cake made from layers of crepes) - From French

noun:

• being unable to see the (harvest) moon because of rain - archaism
• fifth lunar month ➜ 皐月

noun:

• simple thermal hot spring (containing less than one thousand ppm of dissolved minerals)

adjectival noun:

• juicy (i.e. having lots of juice or liquid)

noun:

• Okinawan rice gruel meal ➜ 雑炊

noun:

• Malta fever (variety of brucellosis caused by the bacteria Brucella melitensis)

noun:

• kindling; small bits of scrap wood used to fuel a stove - obscure term

noun:

• caddisfly; caddis fly (any moth-like insect of the order Trichoptera)

noun:

• hunting (of animals such as boar, deer, etc.)

noun:

• Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible, traditionally attributed to Moses) ➜ 律法

noun:

• Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible, traditionally attributed to Moses) - obscure term ➜ モーセ五書

adjective:

• can't be helped (of situation, reason, etc.); unavoidable