expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a meal (before doing something); to fortify oneself with a meal

noun:

• sale of one's belongings before returning to one's country; sayonara sale

noun / ~する noun:

• receiving in advance; taking before others
• prefetch - IT term
• anticipatory completion; finishing another person's sentence in anticipation of what likely to be said next - Linguistics term

noun:

• ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
• first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to give an address (before a large number of people); to give a forceful speech

interjection:

• don't worry about it; never mind; that's OK - esp. in sports - From English "don't mind"

noun:

• being crazy about something, but not be good at it

noun:

• approving a document without adequately reading it; rubber-stamping - sensitive

adverb:

• as if it were true; with seeming truth; plausibly ➜ 実しやか

expression / adverb:

• to one's regret; regrettably; unfortunately

expression:

• it cannot be helped - in the form 〜をいかんせん

noun:

• starting an enterprise and (or) carrying it to final success - four character idiom

noun:

• soba with broth poured over it ➜ 掛け蕎麦

noun:

• string of a crown (to prevent it from falling off)

expression:

• one who knows little often repeats it - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• borrowing something without returning it; mooching; welching - colloquialism ➜ パクる

suffix noun / prefix noun / noun:

• food with dressing on it (e.g. salad) - when a suffix, follows a word indicating the type of dressing ➜ 和える

expression:

• to all appearances; no matter how you look at it

noun:

• kite with a (kanji or kana) character written on it

noun:

• front and rear; front and back; before and behind - archaism

noun:

• the sun, the moon and the stars; the heavenly bodies - four character idiom

expression:

• home is wherever one lays one's hat; you can make your living anywhere in this world; there's room for us all in the world; wherever there are humans, there are burial places [literal]

noun:

• sky; the heavens ➜ 下土
• God; the Lord; the Creator; the Supreme Being
• ascension (into heaven)

noun:

• the emperor's person
• the body of Christ; the Host; the Eucharist; Holy Communion

noun / ~する noun:

• the return of the land and people from the feudal lords to the Emperor - four character idiom

noun:

• Islamic holy books (the Pentateuch, the Book of Psalms, the Gospels and the Koran)