expression:

• when there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives out good money (Gresham's Law) - proverb ➜ グレシャムの法則

adverb:

• suddenly and forcefully (e.g. jerk, poke, shove) - onomatopoeia
• in a single gulp; in one go - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• going into a huddle (over); holding secret (closed-door) conference (about); laying heads together in secret consultation - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)

noun:

• pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters - Sumo term

suffix:

• having a tendency towards; being close to

noun:

• great purification; purification rite performed twice a year, before daijōsai and after major disasters - Shintō term ➜ 大嘗祭【だいじょうさい】

expression:

• riding a horse so skillfully that it appears as if man and horse have become one - idiom

noun:

• sleeping quarters; bedroom (mainly refers to one used by a married couple)
• inner room; inner sanctum

noun:

• cutting stock (extra material cut off in machining operations as a safety margin for tolerances); machining allowance

noun:

• hand; arm - polite language ➜ 手
• handwriting; penmanship - honorific language

interjection:

• 'shake' (command to have a dog place its paw in your hand) ➜ お代わり

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to become accustomed to calling (e.g. someone by a certain name)

noun:

• Edo-era street merchant who carried wares hanging from a pole, hawking them in the street - obscure term

noun:

• home in which a woman stays during her period (or while giving birth) - archaism
• period; menstruation; menses - archaism

noun:

• quilt; bedspread; bedcover ［うわがけ］
• cover (for a kotatsu quilt) ［うわがけ］ ➜ 炬燵
• cloak; smock ［うわがけ］
• second dyeing; topping; overlay ➜ 下染め

expression:

• when kids get in a fight, their parents come to their aid; yelping curs will raise mastiffs - proverb

interjection:

• welcome; come in; response to a visitor at one's house who has asked to be shown inside - used by samurai families - archaism ➜ 頼もう【たのもう】

adverb:

• completely (quitting, etc.); entirely; thoroughly; totally; wholly; without hesitation - onomatopoeia
• cleanly (cutting, snapping off, etc.); in a single blow - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ お達し【おたっし】

noun:

• wooden ladle or rod used to stir the rice porridge used in a kayaura divination ➜ 粥占

noun:

• love that is motivated by job-hunting; using sex to get a job - From English "recruit love"

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; desperately; frantically; for dear life; all-out effort; sticking at living in and defending one place - four character idiom ➜ 一生懸命
• sticking at living in one place

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to set one's mind on doing; to get the idea of doing; to make up one's mind

adjective:

• dark; gloomy; murky
• depressed; dispirited; down in the dumps; dark (mood)
• dark (in colour); dull
• ill-boding; dark (e.g. past); suspicious
• unlikely (to succeed); hopeless; unpromising
• unfamiliar (with); ignorant (of) - as 〜に暗い Antonym: 明るい

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep one's wit about one; to be on one's guard; to be wary; to keep on one's toes - idiom ➜ 眉に唾をつける

noun:

• important task; important role; great duty; important mission
• major part (e.g. in a movie)