noun:

• meze; mezze; Greek or Turkish appetizers - From Turkish

expression:

• no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook ➜ 何としても

noun:

• penitence by chanting sutras; confession (of sins); Tendai ritual of chanting Lotus Sutra or to Kanzeon, Amida, or Kichijoten for forgiveness of sins performed unknowingly - Buddhism term

noun / suffix noun:

• penitence sutra - Buddhism term

noun:

• guidebook to penitence - Buddhism term

noun:

• buzzword; popular expression; vogue word or phrase

noun:

• steel manufactures; steel products; articles of iron or steel

noun:

• phenomime; mimetic word; word that mimics an action, condition, or manner that does not make a sound (e.g. "damp", "calmly") - e.g., じめじめ、ゆったり - Linguistics term

noun / ~する noun:

• group suicide; mass suicide; arranged suicide of two or more people - obscure term ➜ 集団自殺

noun / ~する noun:

• setback; deadlock; being at a standstill or impasse

~と adverb:

• up and down; lightly; nimbly; moving in small leaps as a frog or rabbit - onomatopoeia
• casually; (strolling about) without a care - onomatopoeia ➜ ひょいひょい

expression:

• as soon as; no sooner than; one way or another

noun:

• objection

~の noun:

• signed; sealed; having a signature or seal - Law term

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / noun:

• bulging; swelling (e.g. with water); loose-fitting or baggy (clothing) - onomatopoeia
• bubbling; foaming - onomatopoeia

noun:

• glasses for show; fashionable eyeglasses worn for appearance's sake; glasses with no lenses or 'window glass' lenses

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• selection; making a choice; sifting; decision to adopt or reject - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• gofer; dogsbody; person who is made to do things or get things for someone else

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else

noun:

• recreational diving; no decompression stop diving; diving at depths which do not exceed 40 meters or 130 feet

adverb / ~と adverb:

• bubblingly; foamingly; sinking or rising while giving off bubbles - onomatopoeia ➜ ぶくぶく
• cute and chubby; pudgy; puffed up - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age - idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• fully satisfied; well satisfied (e.g. with an explanation or apology); to have one's heart completely cleared of doubt or grudge

noun:

• printed; published; noted or mentioned (in a publication)

noun:

• stamp book; pilgrim's passport; souvenir seal albumn; book for collecting commemorative seals or stamps (at tourist sights, temples, shrines, etc.)

expression:

• always listen to your parents; always value your parents' advice; not even one in a thousand of a parents' opinion or an eggplant flower are in vain [literal] - proverb

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be harmonious; to get on well; to be intimate or close

noun:

• public talk; panel session; round-table discussion - From English "talk event" ➜ トークライブ