expression:

• pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand ➜ 見て見ぬ振り

adjectival noun:

• comprador-like; being an underling to a foreign company to the detriment of one's own country

noun:

• getting paid to go out drinking (usu. a set amount to cover the taxi fare home) ➜ ギャラ

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; "escalator school" - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター学校

noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

noun:

• back; lower back; waist; hips; lumbar region
• body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring - usu. コシ

noun:

• fashion style characterized by brown hair and deep-tanned skin, expensive brand-name clothes and accessories - abbreviation ➜ お姉系ギャル

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to taste; to savor; to savour; to relish
• to appreciate; to enjoy; to relish; to digest
• to experience; to go through; to taste (e.g. victory); to know (e.g. pain)

expression / prefix:

• to allow oneself to ...; to take the liberty of ... - with noun+する or noun+をverb

expression:

• it is presumed that; (I, we) presume that
• on one's own accord; by one's arbitrary decision ➜ 勝手に

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to finger; to touch; to play with; to fiddle with; to toy with
• to make changes to; to tinker with; to tamper with ［いじる］
• to dabble in; to do as a hobby; to play around with ［いじる］
• to grope; to feel around (in one's pocket, bag, etc.) ［まさぐる］

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to go out to meet
• to receive; to welcome; to greet; to salute; to hail; to reach; to approach; to enter (a phase, era, etc.)
• to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family)
• to call for; to summon; to invite
• to approach (a certain time, a point in one's life, etc.)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to wave; to shake; to swing
• to sprinkle; to throw (dice)
• to cast (actor); to allocate (work)
• to turn down (somebody); to reject; to jilt; to dump
• to abandon; to give up; to ruin
• to add kana indicating a reading of a word ➜ 振り仮名
• to slightly change headings; to change directions
• to extract by broiling; to prepare an infusion of; to decoct
• to carry with great vigor (e.g. a portable shrine)
• to bring up a topic; to lead to a topic
• to replace; to substitute
• to set up a joke for somebody else

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to buy - humble language ➜ 貰う
• to eat; to drink - humble language - polite language
• to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head); to have (on top) - orig. meaning
• to have (as one's leader); to live under (a ruler); to install (a president)

auxiliary verb / godan ~く verb:

• to get somebody to do something - follows a verb in "-te" form - humble language ➜ 貰う【もらう】

noun:

• being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place - four character idiom

noun:

• cup of sake used to drink to the establishment of a partnership, commitment to marriage, etc.; nuptial cup of sake

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize; to realise

godan ある verb (spec.):

• to give; to confer; to bestow - honorific language
• to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour; to favor - honorific language

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to strike against; to collide with; to bump into; to conflict
• to encounter; to meet
• to clash

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to change into; to convert to; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone) ➜ 化する

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to rise above; to transcend ➜ 立ち【たち】
• to surpass; to be superior to ➜ 立ち【たち】
• to go out; to come around

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to strike against; to collide with; to bump into; to conflict ➜ ぶつかる
• to encounter; to meet ➜ ぶつかる
• to clash ➜ ぶつかる

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to bend; to curve; to warp; to wind; to twist
• to turn ➜ 折れる【おれる】
• to be awry; to be askew; to be crooked

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to keep up (appearances)
• to smooth over (an error, etc.); to gloss over; to varnish over; to palliate; to temporize; to temporise
• to mend; to repair; to patch up

expression / adverb:

• just like that; in the twinkling of an eye; in the blink of an eye; in the time it takes to say "ah!" [literal]