noun / ~の noun:

• acting cool; pretending to be a better person that one is; pretentious (person) - colloquialism - Kansai dialect

noun:

• instant noodles (sold in a soft plastic packaging, as opposed to cup noodles) ➜ カップ麺

noun:

• passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)

noun / ~の noun:

• sophistication; wordly wisdom

~する noun:

• to lose one's innocence; to get sophisticated; to get to know the world by being in contact with people; to lose one's naivete

noun / suffix:

• stuffing; packing - づめ when a suffix

noun:

• end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
• lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony
• tea master
• endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively)
• sweet eel sauce - abbreviation
• middle-aged woman - archaism

suffix noun:

• appointment to a particular workplace
• using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment)
• continuing; keep doing for period of time - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• making adjustments based on experience; doing something by feel; skill; knack

noun / ~する noun:

• going easy on someone; making allowances; using discretion; taking various circumstances into account

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting a thin object (e.g. vegetable stalk) at a 45 degree angle; cutting in a way that blunts or rounds the cut ➜ 削ぐ

expression:

• a wholesome household can not be disturbed from the outside; a house divided against itself cannot stand; a firm fence keeps the dogs out [literal] - proverb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind schedule; to be overdue ➜ 遅刻

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to remain; to be left over; to be in excess; to be too many ➜ 余り・余り

noun / ~する noun:

• abortion ➜ 妊娠中絶

~する noun:

• to be interrupted; to be discontinued; to be suspended; to fall into abeyance

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate

godan ~む verb:

• to be in high spirits; to be encouraged; to be lively; to cheer up

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to closely resemble
• to suit well; to match well; to go well with

adjective:

• friendly; easy to get on with; easy to talk to; easy to like

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be struck with terror; to be terrified; to be scared to death

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to float in the air
• to be unfinished; to be unsettled; to be undecided

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to often be the case; to occur frequently; to be common; to be popular

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be crazy about; to be infatuated with; to be obsessively devoted to

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drop into; to slip into; to let fall into; to slide (something) down

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be hard to deal with; to be sinister-looking; to be idiosyncratic

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get to the heart (of the matter); to come to the main point

noun:

• thing; matter
• incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
• circumstances; situation; state of affairs
• work; business; affair
• after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to

suffix noun:

• nominalizing suffix ➜ 事【ごと】
• pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... ➜ 事【ごと】

noun / suffix noun:

• alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as - esp. as ＡことＢ or ＡとはＢのことだ (Ａ alias, Ｂ formal)

noun:

• going through a cave, grass ring or the interior of a large Buddhistic statue, etc. (symbolizing rebirth)
• narrow grotto (into which a person can barely fit)

expression:

• evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; a skink lizard's shedding of its tail [literal] - idiom