Japanese vocabulary from Courrier Japon article "北欧—その光と影" (2010/07)
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| いかなる | any kind of (with neg. verb)
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| かつて | once, before, formerly, former, ex-; never (with negative verb)
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| シック | chic; sick; thick
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| ゼネスト | general strike
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| つつましい | modest, reserved, quiet, humble
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| とはいえ | though, although, be that as it may, nonetheless
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| もたらす | to bring, to take, to bring about
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| やって来る | やってくる | to come along, to come around, to turn up
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| 一致団結 | いっちだんけつ | solidarity, working together as one for a common cause
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| 一面 | いちめん | one face, one surface; the whole surface; one aspect, one side; on the other hand
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| 不平 | ふへい | complaint, discontent, dissatisfaction
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| 中央集権 | ちゅうおうしゅうけん | centralized authoritarian rule
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| 主張 | しゅちょう | claim, request, assertion, emphasis, contention, opinion, tenet
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| 伝統 | でんとう | tradition, convention
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| 住み着く | すみつく | to settle (in a place), to settle down
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| 何もかも | なにもかも | anything and everything, just about everything
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| 作り出す | つくりだす | to manufacture, to produce, to raise (crops); to invent, to dream up
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| 信仰 | しんこう | (religious) faith, belief, creed
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| 先進国 | せんしんこく | advanced/developed country, advanced nations
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| 入れ墨 | いれずみ | tattoo
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| 典型的 | てんけいてき | typical, representative, stereotypical, model, ideal
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| 刺繍 | ししゅう | embroidery
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| 則る | のっとる | to conform to, to be in accordance with, to follow (rule, tradition, example, etc.)
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| 創設 | そうせつ | establishment, founding, organization, organisation
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| 労使協調 | ろうしきょうちょう | labor-management cooperation
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| 協働 | きょうどう | cooperation
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| 協調 | きょうちょう | cooperation, conciliation, harmony; firm (market) tone
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| 厚い | あつい | thick, deep, heavy; kind, cordial, hospitable, warm, faithful; abundant
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| 厚生大臣 | こうせいだいじん | Minister of Health and Welfare
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| 厳格 | げんかく | severe, rigid, strict, rigor, rigour, austere
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| 収入 | しゅうにゅう | income, receipts, revenue
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| 収容施設 | しゅうようしせつ | reception center (e.g. for refugees)
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| 口下手 | くちべた | defective speech, poor talker, tongue-tied person
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| 合間 | あいま | interval, break, pause, spare moment
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| 同一 | どういつ | identity, sameness, similarity, equality, fairness
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| 同性 | どうせい | same sex, homosexuality, homogeneity, congeniality
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| 同質 | どうしつ | same quality, same nature, homogeneous
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| 啓蒙 | けいもう | enlightenment, instruction
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| 善人 | ぜんにん | good people
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| 囁く | ささやく | to whisper, to murmur
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| 四苦八苦 | しくはっく | being in dire distress, being hard put to it; the four and eight kinds of suffering
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| 困窮 | こんきゅう | poverty, distress
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| 国民性 | こくみんせい | national traits or character, nationality
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| 地区 | ちく | district, section, sector
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| 基準 | きじゅん | standard, basis, criterion, norm, reference, datum
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| 堂々 | どうどう | grand, impressive, majestic, imposing, stately; fair, square, open; grandly; unreservedly, without apology
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| 壁 | かべ | wall, lining (stomach), fence
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| 夏至 | げし | summer solstice
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| 大いなる | おおいなる | big, large, great
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| 太平洋 | たいへいよう | Pacific Ocean
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| 夫妻 | ふさい | man and wife, married couple
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| 夫婦 | ふうふ | married couple, spouses, husband and wife, couple, pair
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| 奇跡 | きせき | miracle, wonder, marvel
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| 学業 | がくぎょう | studies, schoolwork, classwork
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| 宣言 | せんげん | declaration, proclamation, announcement
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| 容易 | ようい | easy, simple, plain
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| 審査 | しんさ | judging, inspection, examination, investigation
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| 尊重 | そんちょう | respect, esteem, regard
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| 小国 | しょうこく | small country
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| 少数民族 | しょうすうみんぞく | minority peoples
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| 屋根 | やね | roof
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| 崩壊 | ほうかい | collapse, crumbling, breaking down, caving in; decay (physics)
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| 左翼 | さよく | left-wing
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| 帝国 | ていこく | empire, imperial
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| 平凡 | へいぼん | common, commonplace, ordinary, mediocre
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| 平等 | びょうどう | equality, impartiality, evenness
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| 広大 | こうだい | huge, very large, vast, extensive, magnificent, grand
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| 座 | ざ | squat, seat, cushion, gathering, sit
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| 当局 | とうきょく | authorities; this office
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| 快適 | かいてき | pleasant, agreeable, comfortable
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| 思わせる | おもわせる | to make somebody believe (something), to give somebody the impression
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| 愛国心 | あいこくしん | patriotic feelings, patriotism
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| 慎重 | しんちょう | discretion, prudence, caution, care
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| 懐疑 | かいぎ | doubt, skepticism, scepticism, disbelief
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| 成し遂げる | なしとげる | to accomplish, to finish, to fulfill
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| 成り立つ | なりたつ | to consist of; to be practical (logical, feasible), to be concluded, to hold true
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| 成立 | せいりつ | coming into existence, arrangements, establishment, conclusion, completion; to come into existence, to be true, to hold (i.e. hold true)
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| 手を差し伸べる | てをさしのべる | to hold out one's hand, to extend one's arm
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| 手厚い | てあつい | courteous, cordial, warm
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| 打開 | だかい | break in the deadlock
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| 扱い | あつかい | treatment, service
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| 拠点 | きょてん | position, location, base, point
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| 振る舞い | ふるまい | behavior, behaviour, conduct
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| 控えめ | ひかえめ | moderate, reserved, conservative, humble, mild-mannered, self-effacing, unassuming, well-behaved, low-key, temperate, in small quantities
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| 援助 | えんじょ | assistance, aid, support
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| 支給 | しきゅう | provision, supply, payment, allowance, grant
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| 支配 | しはい | rule, control, direction
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| 改善 | かいぜん | improvement (Japanese business ideal of continuous improvement)
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| 政権 | せいけん | (political) administration, political power
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| 政治評論家 | せいじひょうろんか | political commentator (journalist, columnist)
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| 故郷 | ふるさと | home town, birthplace, old village, historic village, native place, one's old home
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| 敗者 | はいしゃ | the defeated, vanquished, loser
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| 教授 | きょうじゅ | professor; teaching, instruction
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| 方針 | ほうしん | objective, plan, policy
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| 施す | ほどこす | to donate, to give, to conduct, to apply, to perform
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| 明くる | あくる | next, following
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| 服装 | ふくそう | garments, attire
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| 本来 | ほんらい | originally, primarily; essentially, naturally, by nature, in (and of) itself; proper, legal
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| 枠組み | わくぐみ | frame, framework
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| 架空 | かくう | aerial, overhead, fiction, fanciful
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| 栄え有る | はえある | splendid, glorious
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| 根ざす | ねざす | to come from, to have roots in
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| 模索 | もさく | groping (for), exploring for a solution
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| 欠点 | けってん | faults, defect, weakness
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| 気質 | きしつ | spirit, character, trait, temperament, turn of mind, disposition
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| 水準 | すいじゅん | level, standard; water level
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| 決断力 | けつだんりょく | decisiveness
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| 治安維持 | ちあんいじ | maintenance of public order, maintaining security
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| 沿い | ぞい | along
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| 法則 | ほうそく | law, rule
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| 波 | なみ | waves, billows, Poland
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| 流入 | りゅうにゅう | afflux, influx
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| 海岸 | かいがん | coast, beach
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| 海峡 | かいきょう | channel (e.g. between two land masses), strait
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| 海洋 | かいよう | ocean
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| 海賊 | かいぞく | pirate, sea robber
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| 済し崩し | なしくずし | paying back in installments; gradual reduction, little by little
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| 満たす | みたす | to satisfy, to fulfill, to appease; to fill (e.g. a cup), to pack; to reach (a certain number)
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| 満喫 | まんきつ | have enough of, fully enjoy
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| 満足 | まんぞく | satisfaction; sufficiency
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| 源 | みなもと | source, origin
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| 無縁 | むえん | unrelated, without relations, unidentified, indifferent
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| 煽り | あおり | influence, gust (of wind)
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| 煽る | あおる | to fan, to agitate, to stir up
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| 特徴 | とくちょう | feature, trait, characteristic, pecularity
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| 独自 | どくじ | original, peculiar, characteristic, proprietary
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| 獲得 | かくとく | acquisition, possession
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| 生計を立てる | せいけいをたてる | to make a living
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| 町並み | まちなみ | street (of stores and houses), townscape, (look of) stores and houses on street
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| 疑い深い | うたがいぶかい | doubting, distrustful, incredulous, suspicious
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| 皮肉 | ひにく | cynicism, sarcasm, irony, satire
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| 監視 | かんし | observation, guarding, inspection, surveillance
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| 着実 | ちゃくじつ | steady, sound, trustworthy, solid
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| 知恵 | ちえ | wisdom, wit, sagacity, sense, intelligence; prajna (insight leading to enlightenment)
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| 石工 | いしく | mason, stonemason
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| 研修 | けんしゅう | training (esp. in-service), induction course
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| 確保 | かくほ | guarantee, maintain, ensure, insure, secure, reservation
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| 称える | たたえる | to extol, to give praise
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| 移住 | いじゅう | migration, immigration
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| 移民 | いみん | emigration, immigration; emigrant, immigrant
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| 穀物 | こくもつ | grain, cereal, corn
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| 立ち上がる | たちあがる | to stand up, to get up; to rise; to recover; to take action, to start; to make the initial charge (in sumo); to start up, to boot up
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| 立国 | りっこく | founding of a nation
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| 築き上げる | きずきあげる | to build up, to establish (one's reputation)
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| 籍 | せき | enroll, domiciliary register, membership
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| 組合 | くみあい | association, union
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| 経営者 | けいえいしゃ | manager, proprietor
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| 経緯 | けいい | details, whole story, sequence of events, chronology, particulars, how it started, how things got this way; complications, position
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| 統一 | とういつ | unity, consolidation, uniformity, unification, compatible
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| 統計 | とうけい | statistics
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| 絶望的 | ぜつぼうてき | desperate, hopeless
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| 維持 | いじ | maintenance, preservation, improvement
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| 綻び | ほころび | open seam, seam that has come apart, tear
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| 縁遠い | えんどおい | lately married; having little prospect of marriage; unconnected, weakly related
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| 群れ | むれ | group, crowd, flock, herd, bevy, school, swarm, cluster, clump
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| 羨む | うらやむ | to envy
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| 聖 | せい,ひじり | holy, saint, sage, master, priest
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| 職人 | しょくにん | worker, mechanic, artisan, craftsman
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| 職種 | しょくしゅ | type of occupation, occupational category
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| 肉牛 | にくぎゅう | beef cattle
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| 育む | はぐくむ | to raise, to rear, to bring up
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| 背ける | そむける | to turn one's face away, to avert one's eyes
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| 脅かす | おどかす | to threaten, to menace; to startle, to surprise
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| 自治区 | じちく | territory, autonomous region
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| 自覚 | じかく | self-consciousness, self-awareness
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| 航海 | こうかい | sail, voyage
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| 航行 | こうこう | cruise, navigation, sailing
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| 芝居掛かった | しばいがかった | affected, theatrical, pompous
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| 芽生える | めばえる | to bud, to sprout
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| 著作 | ちょさく | writing, book
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| 薄明るい | うすあかるい | slightly bright
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| 薪 | たきぎ, まき | fuel, firewood, kindling
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| 藁葺き | わらぶき | thatched roof
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| 行き詰まり | いきづまり | deadlock, stalemate, impasse, dead end
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| 行き詰まる | いきづまる | to reach the limits, to come to the end of one's tether
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| 補佐官 | ほさかん | aide
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| 要素 | ようそ | component, factor, item (e.g. in list); element (e.g. in array)
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| 規則 | きそく | rules, regulations, conventions
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| 視察 | しさつ | inspection, observation
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| 視野 | しや | field of vision, outlook
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| 親友 | しんゆう | close friend, bosom (old, intimate) friend, buddy, crony, chum
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| 観点 | かんてん | point of view
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| 解禁 | かいきん | lifting a ban
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| 解説 | かいせつ | explanation, commentary, exposition, elucidation
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| 解雇 | かいこ | discharge, dismissal
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| 訴える | うったえる | to sue (a person), to take someone to court; to resort to (e.g. arms, violence); to appeal to, to call for; to raise, to bring to (someone's attention); to complain
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| 証拠 | しょうこ | evidence, proof
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| 評価 | ひょうか | valuation, estimation, assessment, evaluation
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| 評論家 | ひょうろんか | critic
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| 誘惑 | ゆうわく | temptation, allurement, lure, seduction
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| 説く | とく | to explain, to advocate, to preach, to persuade
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| 警戒 | けいかい | vigilance, precaution, watch, lookout; to be vigilant, to be cautious, to guard (against)
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| 象る | かたどる | to model on, to make in the shape of, to represent, to pattern after, to imitate; to symbolise
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| 賢い | かしこい | wise, clever, smart
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| 起源 | きげん | origin, beginning, rise
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| 路線 | ろせん | route, line, alignment
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| 転じる | てんじる | to turn, to shift, to alter, to distract
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| 転換 | てんかん | convert, divert
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| 輝く | かがやく | to shine, to glitter, to sparkle
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| 迎え入れる | むかえいれる | to show in, to usher in
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| 追い込む | おいこむ | to herd, to corner, to drive
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| 送り迎え | おくりむかえ | seeing (or dropping) off, then later picking up or going to meet (the same person)
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| 連帯 | れんたい | solidarity, collective; joint
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| 連帯感 | れんたいかん | feeling of solidarity
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| 過度 | かど | excess, immoderation
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| 道徳 | どうとく | morals
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| 郊外 | こうがい | suburb, outskirts
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| 鈍い | にぶい | dull (e.g. a knife), thickheaded, obtuse, slow, stupid
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| 開放 | かいほう | open, throw open, liberalization, liberalisation
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| 開放的 | かいほうてき | open, frank
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| 闘士 | とうし | fighter (for), militant, champion (of), boxer
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| 陥る | おちいる | to fall, to trap, to cave in, to collapse
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| 難民 | なんみん | refugees
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| 静寂 | せいじゃく | silence, stillness, quietness
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| 順調 | じゅんちょう | favourable, favorable, doing well, OK, all right
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| 領土 | りょうど | dominion, territory, possession
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| 風習 | ふうしゅう | custom
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| 飾る | かざる | to decorate, to ornament, to adorn
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| 首相 | しゅしょう | Prime Minister, Chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.), Premier
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| 駆け出し | かけだし | novice, beginner
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| 駐屯地 | ちゅうとんち | garrison
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| 魔女 | まじょ | witch
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Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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