ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pull a wry face; to screw one's face up; to pucker one's face; to scowl; to grimace; to frown ➜ 顔を顰める・眉を顰める

noun:

• someone who gets in the way without serving any useful purpose; fly in the ointment; buttinsky; third wheel

noun:

• 1955 System; Japanese political alignment with the LDP in government and the JSP in opposition, which lasted until 1993 ➜ 自由民主党【じゆうみんしゅとう】・日本社会党【にっぽんしゃかいとう】

noun / ~する noun:

• appointment (to a position, job, etc.); being used for a role; promotion

noun:

• taking up a new position as chief priest of a Buddhist temple

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to enclose (a word, letter, symbol, etc.) with a circle

noun:

• short pillar set on a beam to support a ridgepole ➜ うだつが上がらない

expression:

• Even a fool may sometimes come up with a good idea - four character idiom

noun:

• book of stamps (each confirming donation to a temple on a pilgrimage)

expression:

• a little learning is a dangerous thing - proverb

noun:

• sin of having sexual relations with a woman (for a Buddhist priest)

noun:

• partial match; matching a search term with sub-string within a field - IT term

expression / adverb / prefix:

• a lot; to a very great extent; absolutely - slang - abbreviation ➜ 半端ない

noun:

• placing a minor under protective detention; imposing a care and custody order

expression / ichidan verb:

• to compare and contrast two alternatives; to weigh the relative merits of A and B; to weigh one's options
• to try to have it both ways; to try to sit on two stools ➜ 両天秤を掛ける

noun:

• head (chief, director) of a section or department
• head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team ➜ 倶楽部

godan ~く verb:

• to be underwater from the neck down; to collect shells, seaweed, etc. by diving under the water - archaism
• to force something under the surface of the water

noun:

• euphonic change of unvoiced to voiced sound (on the first consonant of the non-initial mora of a compound)

adverb / ~の noun:

• for the first time ➜ 始める

adverb:

• only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ... - after the -te form of a verb

noun:

• the five Ws and one H (who, what, when, where, why and how)

noun:

• kariginu (informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards) - archaism
• (during the Edo period) patterned kariginu ➜ 布衣【ほい】

noun / ~する noun:

• failing to live up to one's name; being beaten by one's name

noun:

• daily income in cash; money paid by daily installments; money paid by daily instalments

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to deliver the coup de grace
• to put an end to; to deliver the final blow
• to be the best for A - as ＡはＢに止めを刺す

noun:

• social organisation for people originating from the same town, village, or island who live in an urban center far from home (predominantly used by people from Okinawa)