ichidan verb / transitive:

• to think hard; to brood over; to worry too much (about); to torment oneself (with the thought of)

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• stylish; smart; fashionable
• high collar ➜ ハイカラー
• hair dressed in a western style

~する noun:

• to dress in the latest Western fashion

noun / ~する noun:

• pardon; extenuation; excuse ［かしゃく］
• borrowing ［かしゃく］

noun:

• borrowing a kanji with the same pronunciation to write a similar-sounding word

noun / ~する noun:

• making a country prosperous; prosperous country
• Kōkoku era (of the Southern Court) (1340.4.28-1346.12.8)

noun:

• strut; short vertical post
• thickness (of a book minus the cover, a sheaf of paper, etc.)
• handbreadth; bundle - archaism ➜ 束【そく】

noun:

• man of this world; the real world; temporal things
• cast-off cicada shell; cicada ［空蝉・虚蝉］

noun:

• blues experienced by college freshmen or workplace recruits shortly after beginning school or work; the May blues

noun:

• shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine - honorific language - Shintō term ➜ 神体

adverb:

• at last; at length ➜ やっと
• barely; just; by the skin of one's teeth

interjection:

• yo-ho!; heave-ho! ［やっとこさ・やっとこせ］ ➜ やっとこまかせ

noun:

• shaku (flat wooden or ivory baton carried in the right hand when in ceremonial imperial or Shinto garb)

suffix noun:

• intimate (or disdainful) suffix used after a person's name (or the base of an adjective describing that person)

noun:

• honeyeater (any of a number of long-tongued Australasian songbirds, esp. the cardinal honeyeater, Myzomela cardinalis)

noun:

• edict from a senior official in government or military which had the status of a binding official document

noun:

• Muraji (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to seventh highest of eight) - archaism

noun:

• brittle star (any starfish-like echinoderm of the order Ophiuroidea); brittlestar
• Ophioplocus japonicus (species of brittlestar)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to envision how things will turn out (usu. unfortunate)
• to have foresight; to be able to see the future

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to catch 'the stupid' (e.g. from talking to stupid people, watching mindless TV, etc.) - colloquialism

noun:

• someone from outside one's own province (China) ➜ 本省人
• someone who moved to Taiwan from the continent after WWII ➜ 本省人

noun:

• Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus, rare species of fresh water requiem shark that dwells in the rivers of India)

noun:

• thrice moving from house to house
• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning - abbreviation ➜ 三遷の教え

noun:

• winter daylight; winter sunlight - obscure term
• trying to make the most of each day; devoting oneself to one's parents - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• keeping a close watch on both sides; keeping an eye on two things at the same time

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• which can exist solely due to the presence of; whose existence is determined entirely by; which owes everything to - emphatic version of あっての ➜ あっての・こそ

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• on the cheap side; comparatively cheap ➜ 高め【たかめ】

noun:

• wait tile which produces a winning hand with a lower score - Mahjong term

expression:

• harsh words make the going rough; consider your words; a round egg can be cut into a square [literal] - proverb