adverb:

• anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; be that as it may

noun:

• retort; sealed plastic pouch typically containing ready-made sauce or stew; boil-in-the-bag - Food term
• retort; glass vessel used for distillation (now largely obs.) - Chemistry term - From Dutch

noun:

• (relative) merits; superiority or inferiority; quality

noun:

• corporate culture; company climate or spirit; the way a company does things

noun:

• propriety; right or wrong; justice

noun:

• texture; "grain" of a fabric or cloth; direction of the loom or weave in a roll of fabric

noun:

• the northeastern (unlucky) direction; person or thing to be avoided; the demon's gate [literal]
• weak point; Achilles' heel

noun:

• pettifogging lawyer; unscrupulous or unethical lawyer; shyster - derogatory term - four character idiom
• casuist; sophist

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to do over; to answer or fire back; to retort

noun:

• ex-nerd; one who has given up geeky or nerdy hobbies; one who has given up stereotypically geeky dress, mannerisms, etc. ➜ オタク

noun:

• straggling hair; hair too short to be tied or arranged with the rest of the hair (typically around the sideburns); lovelock ➜ 後れ毛

noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

noun:

• different in appearance but essentially the same in content; equal in skills or workmanship but different in style or artistic flavor; the same for all practical purposes - four character idiom ➜ 同工異曲【どうこういきょく】

noun:

• government and people; those in and out of the court or government; the entire nation

expression / ichidan verb:

• to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do - idiom

noun:

• object representative of a divine spirit; object to which a spirit is drawn or summoned; object or animal occupied by a kami ➜ 形代

ichidan verb:

• to cloud; to make dim or dull; to frown ➜ 曇らす

noun:

• the fate of a nation; life-or-death (situation) for a nation; national crisis - four character idiom

noun:

• (head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)

noun:

• place to go; person to turn to or depend on; one's resort

noun:

• something; something or other; so-and-so ➜ 何とか彼とか

adverb:

• for no particular reason; for some reason or other; somehow or other

noun / ~する noun:

• bathing; washing one's body or hair; ablution
• receiving a blessing; receiving an honor

noun:

• deja vu; something already seen or experienced; feeling of having seen or experienced something at least once before - From French

noun:

• heavy rotation; frequently broadcasting or listening to the same music; frequently wearing the same outfit - abbreviation ➜ ヘビーローテーション