noun:

• twisting of the truth in one's writing; playing with text to distort the truth

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to hold or operate with one's hands; to handle
• to find difficult to manage ➜ 持て余す

noun:

• arranging beforehand to tell the same story; getting the stories straight; coordinating one's stories ➜ 口裏を合わせる

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to pour oil on (something); to anoint with oil ➜ 火に油を注ぐ【ひにあぶらをそそぐ】
• to turn up; to add fuel (e.g. to a dispute); to rev up; to encourage

noun / ~する noun:

• clothes (that one is wearing); wearing clothes Antonym: 脱衣

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to wet one's pants; to wet oneself

expression / adjective:

• not mince matters; not mince one's words ➜ 歯に衣着せない

noun:

• material (data) for one's research; research material

noun / ~する noun:

• (one's) work performance; performance record; service record

expression:

• the more one looks (at it) the more...

expression / adjective:

• not mince matters; not mince one's words

noun:

• age at marriage; age at which one marries

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to resemble each other; to resemble one another

expression / ichidan verb:

• to admit fault; to admit one is wrong

noun:

• stretching a rope around; roping off; cordoning off; demarcation
• one's turf; domain; territory; jurisdiction; sphere of influence

noun:

• being kept uninformed; being cut off; out of the loop - sensitive
• upper gallery (where one can't hear); blind seat - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• lumping together all sorts of things; making sweeping generalizations; dealing with various things under one head

expression / noun:

• tempting thing; (too much of a) temptation; something that shouldn't be seen; the last thing one needs to see

noun:

• dispel (esp. magic or potion used to return one's character to normal status in an RPG, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• revenge
• making a new attempt where one previously failed; determination of a loser to win the next time ➜ リターンマッチ

expression:

• (of a choice) one being as excellent as the other; both so beautiful it is hard to choose between - idiom

expression / adjective:

• simple (e.g. matter); problem free
• hopeless; the end (i.e. leaving one at a loss of words); dumbfounding

noun:

• decorative gauze strap that hangs from the front left side of the kohimo when tying closed one's hanpi ➜ 小紐

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• carrying (on one's shoulder); bearing; shouldering; taking responsibility for
• bucket carried on either end of a pole - abbreviation ➜ 担い桶