noun:

• close friendship (i.e. strong enough to cut metal)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• creakily - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• close (i.e. with no room to spare) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• substrate (i.e. in biochemistry)
• matrix (i.e. in biology); stroma

noun:

• M-theory ("master theory" that unifies the five superstring theories)

expression:

• (I) won't (say) anything no matter what (expression is followed by negative verb relating to say, answer, etc.) to not (tell) even under any threat ➜ 口が裂けても言えない【くちがさけてもいえない】

ichidan verb:

• to give way to the light of the morning (i.e. the darkness gives way)

adjective:

• wanted; wished for; in need of; desired ➜ 欲しがる

auxiliary adjective:

• I want (you) to - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone

expression / ichidan verb:

• to "see stars" (i.e. after being hit in the head)

noun / ~する noun:

• sitting calmly and quietly (i.e. in order to meditate)

noun:

• bit (i.e. attached to a bridle)

noun / prefix noun:

• half; semi-

noun / suffix noun:

• half-past

noun:

• odd number ➜ 丁【ちょう】
• unit of land area (595.8 m^2) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• premature death; untimely death; dying young

expression:

• living is difficult; dying is easy - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• extinguishing; dying out (of a fire); putting out

noun:

• dying; laying down one's life
• one out - Baseball term

noun:

• stick-to-itiveness; perseverance; persistence
• radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily) ➜ 基【き】
• root - Mathematics term
• indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs) - Buddhism term

expression / adverb:

• with this I (formal); by this I (formal)

godan ~る verb:

• to Google (i.e. to search for on the WWW using the Google search engine) - colloquialism

noun:

• system requirements (i.e. recommended hardware and software to run a package) - IT term

noun:

• myself; oneself

pronoun:

• I; me - archaism
• you (referring to one's inferior) - archaism - familiar language

noun:

• proximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the speaker, i. e., kore, koko, kochira) - Linguistics term

adverb:

• with all due respect ...; I venture to say ...; Excuse me, but ...

noun:

• long (i.e. full-length) pants (as opposed to shorts)

noun:

• mesioproximal pronoun (indicating proximity to the listener, i.e. sore, soko, sochira) - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• creeping (i.e. growing along the ground, etc. similar to a vine)