noun:

• victimization by media; trial by media; damage caused by exaggerated or false reporting (e.g. that one has committed a crime)

noun:

• ready fire-power; battle-ready forces; immediate asset (to a team or firm); someone who can be an immediately effective player or worker - Business, Sports term

noun / ~する noun:

• leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war); departure; setting out - also has an archaic reading of かどいで
• starting a new life; starting life anew

noun:

• egg slow-boiled so that the yolk is hard but the white is still soft (traditionally cooked in a hot spring)

noun:

• traditional horse-racing; originally two horses head-to-head or ten at a time, esp. May 5th event at Kamigamo shrine

expression:

• having one's good intentions backfire dangerously; causing harm when trying to prevent it; trying to put out a fire while carrying kindling [literal] - idiom

noun:

• national language
• Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan) ➜ 国語科
• native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)

noun / ~する noun:

• standing together in a disorderly fashion; standing close around; crowding together
• flooding in (applicants, election candidates, etc.)

godan ~る verb:

• to have much trouble; to have a hard time; to not know how to handle

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to inlay; to insert; to set
• to plug in (to a formula); to immerse - Mathematics term
• to trick; to deceive

noun:

• tag team (wrestling) - Sports term
• working together as a team

noun:

• article for sale; goods for sale; offering; For Sale (on a sign)
• specialty; selling point

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to run up (a hill, stairs etc.); to dash up; to rush up

noun / ~する noun:

• return to the battle line; come back to the game (on to the field); a comeback - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to ensconce oneself (e.g. in a chair); to settle oneself down; to plant oneself

noun:

• using one's fingers as a comb; combing one's hand through one's hair

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to screw; to twist
• to distort; to parody; to make a pun - esp. もじる
• to torture; to wrest

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to warm (e.g. one's hands over a fire); to dry
• to toast; to grill; to broil; to roast; to scorch

noun:

• (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall ➜ 色茶屋・料理茶屋

expression:

• nothing costs as much as what is given to us; there's no such thing as a free lunch - proverb

noun:

• continued alertness; unrelaxed alertness; remaining on one's guard; being prepared for a counterstroke
• follow-through (e.g. in archery)
• lingering affection; attachment; regret; regrets; reluctance - orig. meaning

adverb / ~の noun:

• more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion; pretty much; roughly; so far as it goes

adverb:

• tentatively; for the time being
• just in case
• once

noun:

• large-size refuse (e.g. furniture, electrical goods); oversized garbage; bulky rubbish
• useless man about the house; husband that is retired and considered a nuisance - colloquialism - derogatory term

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

noun:

• way of swimming