noun:

• children's game in which a wooden stick driven into the ground is dislodged by sticks thrown at it ➜ 根っ木

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to participate in (as a member); to get involved in - idiom

noun:

• fiend for work; workaholic; career-minded person - four character idiom

expression:

• in comparison with; when compared with; according to; in light of; in view of ➜ に照らすと

noun / ~の noun:

• in operation (of a machine, especially security cameras); in use; in action

noun:

• paid-in capital

noun:

• standing on one's feet for a long time - abbreviation - colloquialism ➜ 立ちっぱなし

noun:

• love for one's hometown

noun:

• carrying over a bill from one Diet session to the next, being deliberated by a committee in the interim

noun:

• school uniform for boys, often with stand-up collar, long jacket and loose trousers - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• occurring in succession

noun:

• chastisement for evildoing; punishment

noun:

• being stationed or resident in the USA

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to rub in; to smear on; to spread on; to daub
• to lay the blame on ➜ 擦り付ける【なすりつける】

noun:

• court official in charge of entertaining important guests - archaism

noun:

• box for holding papers or stationery

noun:

• brushwood, etc. used as cultch for seaweed or oyster farming (culch)

noun:

• going downstream in a boat ➜ 川下り【かわくだり】

noun:

• welfare for the handicapped

noun:

• Christian churches built in Japan in the second half of the 16th century ➜ 南蛮寺

noun:

• couple in which the wife is bigger than the husband

~の noun / noun:

• once in one's life; once in a lifetime - four character idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to put oneself in; to enter; to serve (e.g. in the army); to be enlisted

noun:

• celestial body seen only for a short time (e.g. comet)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to sum it up in one word; ... is the word for it - often Ｘの一言に尽きる