noun:

• (of) opposite sign; (having an) opposite sign - Mathematics term

noun:

• letter of separation; unemployment slip; separation slip

noun:

• middle of a word
• within a word

noun:

• muscular beauty; beauty of a muscular body

noun / suffix noun:

• kneading; gloss; tempering

noun or verb acting prenominally / noun:

• paste (e.g. bean paste, mustard paste)

noun:

• parading of portable shrines and floats at festivals - orig. 邌り, usu. お練り - Shintō term ➜ 練り歩く【ねりあるく】・お練り【おねり】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fill (one's heart); to experience a welling up of feelings or sensations
• to feel nauseated

noun:

• hornet; yellow jacket; wasp (of subfamily Vespinae)
• Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia); yak-killer hornet ➜ 大雀蜂【おおすずめばち】

noun:

• essential part; indispensable part; unavoidable part; accompaniment; appendage; accessory
• front and back matter (of a book, magazine, etc.)

noun:

• heresy; evil ways; path of evil ［魔道］
• sorcery; black magic
• netherworld; world outside the six realms where evil spirits roam - Buddhism term ➜ 六道

noun:

• selling one's personal effects in order to live (like peeling the layers of a bamboo shoot one by one)

noun:

• red-banded sand wasp (Ammophila sabulosa)
• thread-waisted wasp (any wasp of family Sphecidae, incl. digger wasps & mud daubers)

noun:

• bloodworm (Halla okadai, species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait) ➜ 揺蚊
• red mite (Trombicula akamushi); chigger mite; harvest mite ➜ 恙虫

noun:

• student council (details vary widely but a body of students that takes part in overseeing student behaviour or student activities)

expression:

• the soft may prove more durable than the hard; willow trees don't break under the weight of snow [literal] - proverb

noun:

• incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods) - obscure term ➜ 寺入り

noun:

• reversal; return
• return gift; return favour (favor) ➜ お返し
• barb (on a fishing hook)
• mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin

noun:

• tricolored monitor (Varanus yuwonoi, species of carnivorous monitor lizard from Halmahera Island in North Maluku, Indonesia); Moluccan black-backed monitor

noun:

• savanna monitor (Varanus exanthematicus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to sub-Saharan Africa); Bosc's monitor ➜ サバンナモニター

noun:

• Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea); yellow-spotted monitor

noun:

• black-headed monitor (Varanus tristis, small species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia); freckled monitor

noun:

• flat ground
• seats immediately in front of the stage (e.g. in kabuki) ➜ 平土間【ひらどま】
• multi-brand display area (in a shop)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)

noun:

• crookedness; something not right; something out of the ordinary; something unpleasant; something disgusting; unlawfulness; something unhappy; calamity

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to tire of; to lose interest in - archaism ➜ 飽きる
• to be satisfied; to enjoy
• to do adequately - after the -masu stem of a verb

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to differ; to be different
• to run counter to
• to change (into something out of the ordinary)