noun:

• carapace; shell
• 1st in rank; grade A
• instep; back of hand
• the A party (e.g. in a contract); the first party; plaintiff (label in legal documents) ➜ 乙【おつ】

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to say incorrectly; to use the wrong words; to make a slip of the tongue
• to forget to say; to miss one's chance to say

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to shake; to jolt; to rock; to swing; to sway
• to shake (e.g. the political world); to disturb; to shock; to upset
• to put off a batter (by varying one's type of pitch) - Baseball term

noun:

• burden of interest; interest burden; interest cost; interest payment burden

noun / ~する noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey (so-called because traditional pipes had metal only in two short segments at the ends) ➜ 煙管乗り

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to become clear (water, air, etc.); to become transparent
• to resonate clearly (e.g. voice)
• to become serene; to become tranquil; to be free of worries
• to pronounce as an unvoiced sound ➜ 清音

noun:

• model; dummy; mock-up
• model (profession); fashion model
• model (of a car, etc.); make; version
• model; example; template; standard
• model (in model theory); theory
• person a fictional character was modeled on; inspiration

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards - four character idiom

noun:

• samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation) ［さんまい］ - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit

suffix noun:

• being immersed in; being absorbed in; indulging in; doing to one's heart's content - usu. ざんまい
• prone to; apt to - usu. ざんまい

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to go back to the start; to reset; to restore; to return to the point (of a discussion); to return something (that has been moved) to previous place; to reconstitute

noun:

• the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease); four big pollution diseases of Japan ➜ 水俣病・第二水俣病・四日市ぜんそく・イタイイタイ病

expression:

• despite having waited a long time; in spite of having waited a long time

noun / ~する noun:

• decommissioning (of a nuclear reactor, furnace, incinerator etc.); decommissioned nuclear reactor (or furnace, incinerator, etc.)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to exterminate; to eradicate; to wipe out; to put an end to
• to let (fire) go out; to let die (e.g. flowers); to run out of

expression / ichidan verb:

• to frustrate (e.g. someone's plans); to give someone a surprise; to give someone a blow; to scare the hell out of

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bother; to embarrass; to harass; to give someone a hard time; to give someone a lot of trouble

~する noun / adverb:

• to feel anxious; to feel nervous; to be kept in suspense; to feel excited; to feel thrilled - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• fluttering down; trickling down (e.g. tears) - onomatopoeia
• hanging untidily (of hair); straggling - onomatopoeia

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a leap into the dark; to take the plunge; to jump in at the deep end; to jump off the stage of the Kiyomizu temple [literal] - idiom

noun:

• lower part; foot; lower direction
• left part of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage right (actor's POV)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fade (of a colour); to grow dull in color (colour)
• to lose vividness; to lose freshness; to grow stale; to pale

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting a fingernail (or toenail) to the quick; cutting a nail too close

noun:

• deep-set nail; deep-set part of nail

expression:

• cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to push up; to force up; to toss
• to pressure one's superiors
• to burst out (of emotions, etc.); to fill one's heart

noun:

• Heike biwa; Heike lute; biwa with 4 strings and 5 frets, esp. for accompanying the Heike Monogatari ➜ 琵琶
• chanting of the Heike Monogatari to biwa accompaniment ➜ 平曲【へいきょく】