ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold or carry under or in the arms
• to have (esp. problems, debts, etc.)
• to employ; to engage; to hire

noun:

• family; clan; kin
• sect; school; adherents; followers; disciples
• group of related sumo stables - Sumo term

noun:

• yell (of encouragement); cheering (esp. for a school sports team)
• ale
• Eire; Ireland ➜ アイルランド

noun:

• double circle; 'good work' (equiv. of silver star awarded to children at school)

noun:

• Edo-period school of Chinese medicine based on pre-Jin and Yuan teachings ➜ 後世方

noun:

• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

noun:

• kindergarten closing ceremony (at end of school year in March, before spring break)

noun:

• looking up a word or kanji by its reading (rather than by its radical or stroke count)
• katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark - colloquialism ➜ 長音符【ちょうおんぷ】

adverb / ~する noun:

• roughly; approximately; loosely - onomatopoeia
• cutting or breaking apart with vigour - onomatopoeia
• deeply (cut or split) - onomatopoeia
• rough (woollens, etc., as adjectival phrase with (to)shita) - onomatopoeia
• sound of treading on pebbles - onomatopoeia

noun:

• this corrupt or degenerate world; this world or life; the world of mankind - Buddhism term

noun:

• public bath; communal bath
• public bath or hot springs maintained by the local community and free or low fee

particle:

• or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options)
• ... or ... - usu. in the form ...なり...なり
• as soon as; right after - after dictionary form verb
• while still; with previous state still in effect - after past tense verb

noun:

• half interchange (an interchange that lacks an exit or an entrance in either or both directions)

noun:

• twisted thread or yarn; twining of thread or yarn

noun:

• colour picture or painting; color picture or painting

noun:

• visiting another school (e.g. of kendo) and defeating each member in a fight

noun:

• style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform - abbreviation - From English "Yokohama traditional"

noun:

• flower circle (equiv. of gold star awarded to kids for good work at school) ➜ 二重丸

noun:

• University Entrance Qualification Examination (establishes the equivalent of high-school graduation prior to 2005) - abbreviation ➜ 大学入学資格検定

noun:

• University Entrance Qualification Examination (establishes the equivalent of high-school graduation prior to 2005) ➜ 高校卒業程度認定試験

noun:

• being drawn to something one loves; amorous passion - Buddhism term
• Ragaraja (esoteric school deity of love) - abbreviation ➜ 愛染明王

noun:

• starting the new school year from autumn (instead of spring); autumnal admission; fall matriculation

noun:

• gap year; yearlong break taken between high school and university

particle:

• yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it? - used at sentence-end; indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical)
• or; whether or not - after each alternative
• some- (e.g. something, someone) - after an interrogative ➜ 何か
• hmm; huh - indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; sometimes after other particles ➜ とか

prefix:

• very - emphatic prefix; usu. before an adjective ➜ か弱い

suffix:

• -al; -ial; -ic; -ical; -ish; -y - suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; after an indeclinable word ➜ 定か

adverb:

• in that way - archaism

expression / noun:

• doing or receiving something good by accident or through the invitation of somebody else; being pulled to the Zenkoji temple by a cow [literal] - idiom