noun:

• last issue (of a magazine, etc. which has suspended publication); final issue

noun:

• meals prepared for employees (e.g. of a restaurant); staff meals

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in pain (referring to others); to complain of pain ➜ 痛い・がる

expression / godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to take pride in; to pride oneself; to be proud of

noun:

• pair; couple; set
• antithesis ➜ 対句

counter:

• counter for items that come in pairs
• counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• (just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine) - four character idiom

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention ➜ 相槌【あいづち】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case
• to scold; to take (a person) to task

noun:

• breaking up a match on doctor's orders (in boxing, etc.) - From English "doctor stop"
• being ordered by one's doctor to give up such habits as drinking, smoking, overeating, etc.

expression:

• walk a mile in other's shoes to understand their suffering; you can't appreciate others' suffering until you've gone through it yourself; pinch yourself and know others' pain [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to disdain; to look down on; to make light of; to hold in contempt; to scorn; to despise

noun:

• (school) class change; class shuffle; rearrangement of which students are in which teacher's class

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to collect; to gather; to get together; to complete (a collection)
• to arrange; to put in order; to prepare; to get ready
• to make uniform; to make even; to match

noun:

• wall; partition
• barrier; obstacle
• Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ［へき］ - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿・玄武【げんぶ】

adverb:

• at last; at length - onomatopoeia
• barely; narrowly; just; by the skin of one's teeth - onomatopoeia

adverb:

• from the bottom of one's heart; heart and soul; by nature

noun:

• loess
• yellow ochre; yellow ocher
• Hades; hell; underworld; world of the dead ［こうど］ - archaism

noun:

• first storm of spring; strong winds during the change from winter to spring

noun:

• classical drama (kabuki, noh, etc.); play of the old school
• period drama (film) ➜ 時代劇

adjectival noun / noun:

• being cleared of all the charge (brought against one); being found completely innocent - four character idiom

noun:

• back to back
• discord; feud
• opposite sides of the same coin

noun:

• provincial capital (under the ritsuryo system); provincial office
• public place of imperial rule

noun:

• comments on current events; public sentiments of the day; current view; contemporary opinion

noun:

• dishonor that persists after death ➜ 生き恥
• shame at the moment of one's death

noun:

• Dutchman's pipe cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum); night-blooming cereus; queen of the night