expression / noun:

• withered trees and cold ash; "someone who is detached and free of desires" [figurative]; "someone who has no vitality" [figurative]

noun:

• the facts; the truth; the true state of affairs

adverbial noun:

• in truth; in fact; in reality; actually

noun:

• the five brights (high-scoring combination in hanafuda); the five light cards; the five hikari cards ➜ 花札

expression:

• nothing costs as much as what is given to us; there's no such thing as a free lunch - proverb

interjection:

• ah!; oh!; alas! - also written as 於乎, 於戯, 嗟乎, 嗟夫, 吁, etc.
• yes; indeed; that is correct
• aah; gah; argh - in exasperation
• hey!; yo!
• uh huh; yeah yeah; right; gotcha

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; staggering; reeling; tottering; dizzily - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• wandering; wavering; aimlessly; without knowing what one is doing; having no goal in mind - onomatopoeia

noun:

• priority seat; courtesy seat; seat provided in trains, buses, etc. for the use of the disabled, young children, the elderly, pregnant women, etc.

noun:

• Carcharodon (genus containing the extant great white shark and the extinct megalodon shark in the mackerel or white shark family Lamnidae)

prefix:

• anti-

noun:

• antithesis ➜ 反定立
• fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone - abbreviation ➜ 反切

noun:

• hair at the temples; hair at the sides of the head

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hit the mark; to hit the nail on the head

noun:

• gatekeeper (in suicide prevention); person who prevents others from committing suicide (by noticing they are depressed and talking to them about it, etc.)
• gatekeeper (in media, networking, etc.)

noun:

• person who is made to do things or go get things for someone else; person who runs errands; gofer - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 使いっ走り

expression:

• a man's word is his bond; a man does not go back on what he's said - proverb ➜ 二言【にごん】

noun / ~の noun:

• money monger; money-happy person; person who is money-mad; money-grubber

expression:

• there is a suitable spouse for everyone; every Jack has his Jill; a mended lid for a cracked pot [literal] - proverb

noun:

• International Trade Commission; ITC
• Independent Television Commission; ITC
• International Trade Center; ITC
• integrated traffic control; ITC
• inclusive tour charter
• IT coordinator

noun:

• The Classic of Poetry; The Book of Songs; The Book of Odes; Shijing; Shih Ching ➜ 五経

proper noun:

• Epistle to the Hebrews (book of the Bible); Letter to the Hebrews; Hebrews ➜ ヘブライ人への手紙

noun:

• falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall ➜ 尻餅をつく
• mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to collect; to put (it all) together; to integrate; to consolidate; to unify
• to summarize; to aggregate
• to bring to a conclusion; to finalize; to settle; to put in order
• to establish; to decide

godan ~る verb:

• to act tough; to act bad; to act worse than one really is

ichidan verb:

• to make; to make something what it should be; to cause to be - archaism

noun:

• the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period ➜ 摂関

suffix:

• first-person plural (or singular) - humble language
• second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to) - derogatory term