noun:

• private school that allows students to advance from one stage of education to the next, often kindergarten to university, without taking entrance exams en route; escalator school [literal] - colloquialism ➜ エスカレーター校

expression / prefix:

• to allow oneself to ...; to take the liberty of ... - with noun+する or noun+をverb

expression:

• it is presumed that; (I, we) presume that
• on one's own accord; by one's arbitrary decision ➜ 勝手に

expression / ichidan verb:

• to kill an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits
• to kill viciously
• to victimize; to torment; to lay into; to give (someone) hell; to vilify

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails

noun:

• (head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)

noun:

• interview with leading player in a game (esp. baseball); player-of-the-game interview - From English "hero interview"

expression / ichidan verb:

• to twist a thread
• to put all one's skill (into doing something); to do something to the best of one's ability - idiom - abbreviation ➜ 腕によりをかける

noun:

• fire in the neighborhood; fire in the neighbourhood

expression / noun:

• savior; saviour; rescuer
• the Savior (in Christianity); the Saviour

noun:

• stowage at the bottom; goods stowed at the bottom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to go beyond the limit; to pass the limit

noun:

• breakthrough in the situation; break in the deadlocked situation - four character idiom

noun:

• belief in the next world; belief in the hereafter - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to win the prize; to win the ring

noun:

• darkness under the trees; dark place under the trees - obscure term

expression / adjective:

• beautiful to the eye; pleasant to the eye; sightly

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make the impossible possible; to accomplish the impossible

noun:

• four-on-the-floor; four-to-the-floor - Music term

noun:

• bass range (in Japanese music) - abbreviation ➜ 甲【かん】
• six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・律
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) ➜ 呂旋

noun:

• Galapagos phenomenon; Galapagos syndrome; tendency of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) to be designed specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species ➜ ガラパゴス化

expression:

• to be frank with you; to tell you the truth; I'm going to lay my cards on the table

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• any and every thing; altogether; lock, stock, and barrel; the whole shooting match; the whole kit and caboodle; without reserve - four character idiom

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• indicates passive voice (incl. the "suffering passive") - れる for 五段 verbs, られる for 一段 verbs. After the -nai stem of a verb ➜ 迷惑の受身【めいわくのうけみ】
• indicates the potential form - no imperative form
• indicates spontaneous occurrence - no imperative form
• used as an honorific for others' actions - no imperative form - honorific language

noun:

• viewpoint; point of view
• way of understanding; way of appreciating; how to look at something (e.g. noh, train schedule) - esp. 〜の見方

noun:

• without intermission for ten (long) years; with constancy of purpose for ten (long) years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom