godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to remove one's shirt thus revealing the skin; to remove the upper part of one's garments
• to work with great effort ➜ 片肌脱ぐ・一肌脱ぐ

noun / ~する noun:

• running alone; running solo
• having a large lead (over the others); being far ahead (of everyone else)
• having one's own way; ignoring others' opinions and acting as one wishes; arbitrary action

expression:

• tread on a worm and it will turn; even a tiny bug will defend itself; even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make the sign of the cross; to bless oneself; to cross oneself

pre-noun adjectival:

• that (something or someone distant from the speaker, close to the listener; actions of the listener, or ideas expressed or understood by the listener); the ➜ 何の【どの】・此の・其れ・彼の

interjection:

• um...; er...; uh...

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry
• to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on
• to have a trace of; to be tinged with ➜ 赤味を帯びた【あかみをおびた】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to stay bottled up inside oneself; to be introverted
• to have a melancholic appearance, atmosphere (of a person, object, place); to have a gloomy appearance

noun:

• mangrove monitor (Varanus indicus, species of carnivorous monitor lizard from the Western Pacific); mangrove goanna; Western Pacific monitor lizard

noun:

• United Nations General Assembly; General Assembly of the United Nations - abbreviation ➜ 国際連合総会【こくさいれんごうそうかい】

noun:

• Japan Sea coastal areas; Sea of Japan coastal areas - sensitive

noun:

• General Assembly of the United Nations; United Nations General Assembly

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to set one's mind on doing; to get the idea of doing; to make up one's mind

noun:

• Gould's monitor (Varanus gouldii, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia); sand goanna; sand monitor; Gould's goanna

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to grow hot (e.g. water); to boil
• to get excited (at); to erupt (in applause, cheering, etc.); to be in a ferment; to take place energetically
• to ferment
• to melt (of metal)

noun / ~の noun:

• single ➜ ダブル
• single bed; hotel room with a single bed - abbreviation ➜ シングルベッド
• single-breasted
• single-cuffed
• single width (of cloth; usu. 0.71 meters) - abbreviation ➜ シングル幅
• singles (e.g. in tennis) - abbreviation - Sports term ➜ シングルス

noun:

• single - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ シングルヒット
• single-figure handicap (in golf) - Sports term ➜ シングルプレーヤー
• shingle

noun:

• appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong); announcement of an appointment that turns out to be mere press speculation - four character idiom

noun:

• salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt)
• cooking a fish inside a salt crust - abbreviation ➜ 塩釜焼き
• candy made with a wrapping of sweetened rice flour (looking like a salt crust)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to meet (by chance); to come across; to run across; to encounter; to happen upon - 出遭う usu. has a negative connotation
• to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.) ［出会う・出合う］ - esp. 出合う
• to emerge and engage (an enemy) ［出会う・出合う］ - often used imperatively as 出会え

noun:

• décolleté; décolletage; the part of a woman's chest and back exposed by a low neckline - From French
• robe décolletée; low-cut dress - abbreviation - From French ➜ ローブデコルテ

noun / ~の noun:

• low-cut (neckline style); décolleté - From French

noun:

• first-rate specimen; first-rate object; superb item; superb article; excellent thing; pick (e.g. of a litter); superb person; excellent person

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get into the swing of (one's work); to hit one's stride
• (for a fish or bird) to put on fat for the winter

godan ~く verb:

• to be underwater from the neck down; to collect shells, seaweed, etc. by diving under the water - archaism
• to force something under the surface of the water

adverb / suffix:

• throne; crown; (nobleman's) seat - orig. from 座居, meaning "seat"
• government position; court rank ➜ 位階
• social standing; rank; class; echelon; rung

noun:

• grade (of quality, etc.); level; tier; rank
• digit (e.g. the tens, the hundreds, etc.); place ➜ 桁
• degree; extent; amount ➜ どの位

noun:

• alley; alleyway; lane ［路地・露路］
• bare earth (i.e. ground not covered by a roof); open field; outdoors (non-greenhouse cultivation of crops) ［露地］
• teahouse garden ［路地・露地］
• path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)

noun:

• cool biz; cool business; business casual (Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) campaign encouraging people to wear lighter clothes and for companies to set their air conditioners to 28C, etc.) ➜ ウォームビズ