godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be truant; to play hooky; to skip school; to skip out; to be idle; to sabotage by slowness - from サボタージュ ➜ サボタージュ

particle:

• from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since
• from (originator); by
• because; since - follows verbs, adjectives
• out of (constituent, part)
• through (e.g. window, vestibule)
• after; since - following the te-form of a verb

noun:

• personal ornament (adorned with gemstones, and usu. worn by the nobility in ancient India or adorning Buddhist statues); necklace; diadem
• moulded decoration hanging from the edges of a Buddhist canopy, gables, etc.

noun:

• young person who stays in their (non-metropolitan) hometown after graduation, drives a car, etc. (unlike the majority who moves to a larger city and commutes by train) ➜ ヤンキー

noun:

• flower arrangement in a built-up style
• placing salt by the entrance to one's establishment to bring good luck; such piles of salt ［もりばな］ ➜ 盛り塩
• seasonal peak of flowers ［せいか］

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to attend a meeting; to have the honor of being present at a meeting; to soil the lowest seat by one's presence [literal] - humble language

noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom

suffix noun:

• not having; unaffected by

conjunction:

• aside; I don't know about ... - often as ～は知らず
• I know not whether; I know not if - at the beginning of a sentence - archaism

noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

noun:

• taking a day off by paying one's own fee to one's master (of a prostitute; often in order to see her lover)

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to cheer up; to be stirred up; to be encouraged (by); to be in high spirits

noun:

• one's relatives by blood and marriage (in blood and law); one's kith and kin - four character idiom

noun:

• item-by-item discussion; itemized discussion; detailed exposition; detailed discussion ➜ 総論

noun:

• impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests - four character idiom

noun:

• impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be lonely at the top; to be left high and dry by one's friends; to have the ladder pulled out from under one [literal]

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to memorize; to memorise; to commit to memory; to learn by heart; to bear in mind; to remember
• to learn; to pick up; to acquire ［覚える］
• to feel ［覚える］
• to think; to regard ［覚える］

expression / adverb:

• by choice; of one's own free will; on one's own initiative; off one's own bat

noun:

• comparing and adjusting; reconciling; knocking into shape; bouncing of ideas, opinions, etc. off each other to obtain a fine-tuned integrated whole
• lapping; precision surface finishing; mating by rubbing together - Engineering term
• margination - usually written using kana alone - Medicine term

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:

• bench used by kabuki actors during performance ［合い引き・合引き］
• for enemies and allies to pull back their troops at the same time
• responding to enemy arrow fire with arrow fire

expression:

• might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong - proverb

noun:

• Collections of the Twenty-One Eras; twenty-one collections of waka compiled by imperial command (early Heian to early Muromachi) ➜ 勅撰和歌集

noun:

• fry-simmering; cooking by first briefly deep-frying, then simmering in broth - Food term
• fry-simmered food; fried food in broth - Food term

noun / ~する noun:

• joint establishment (esp. schools of different levels or different courses of study); establishment as an annex (e.g. of a school); juxtaposition; placing side by side ➜ 併置【へいち】