My words

食物

しょくもつ

food, foodstuff food

昼食

ちゅうしょく ちゅうじき ひるげ

lunch midday meal food served at a tea party (tea ceremony) lunch

苦しむ

くるしむ

to suffer, to groan, to be worried

訴える

うったえる

to raise, to bring to (someones attention) to appeal to, to call for to complain to sue (a person), to take someone to court to resort to (e.g. arms, violence)

象

ぞう しょう

phenomenon

占める

しめる

to occupy, to hold to account for, to make up, to take up

はあ

は

yes indeed well ha what huh sigh

知らせ

しらせ

notice notification

連想

れんそう

association (of ideas), being reminded (of something), suggestion association

振る

ぶる ふる

to wave to shake to swing to sprinkle to throw (dice) to cast (actor) to allocate (work) to turn down (somebody) to reject to jilt to dump to abandon to give up to ruin to add kana indicating a reading of a word to slightly change headings to change directions to extract by broiling to prepare an infusion of to decoct to carry with great vigor (eg a portable shrine) to bring up the main topic to replace to substitute to set up a joke for somebody else

分ける

わける

to divide (into) to split (into) to part to separate to divide up to classify to sort out to divide out to share to distribute to deal out to dish out to distinguish to discriminate to differentiate (between) to break up (a fight) to mediate to call a draw to tie to push ones way through (a crowd) to sell

通じる

つうじる

to be open (to traffic), to lead to, to communicate (with) to flow (liquid, current), to pass, to get through to to be understood, to be comprehended to be honored, to be good to be well versed in, to be well-informed to communicate clandestinely, to keep in touch (e.g. with the enemy) to form a liaison, to be intimate to spread widely, to disseminate

騒音

そうおん

noise

育つ

そだつ

to be raised (eg child) to be brought up to grow (up)

見舞い

みまい

visiting ill or distressed people, writing get-well letters get-well gifts, get-well letters expression of sympathy, expression of concern, enquiry, inquiry

増す

ます

to increase, to grow

体温

たいおん

temperature, body temperature (human, animal) body temperature

天候

てんこう

weather

伸ばす

のばす

to grow long (e.g. hair, nails) to lengthen, to extend, to stretch to reach out, to hold out to straighten, to smooth out to spread evenly (dough, cream, etc.) to dilute, to thin out to postpone to prolong to strengthen, to develop, to expand

抱える

かかえる

to hold or carry under or in the arms to have (esp. problems, debts, etc.) to employ, to engage, to hire

頼る

たよる

to rely on, to have recourse to, to depend on

梅雨

つゆ ばいう

rainy season rain during the rainy season

可愛らしい

かわいらしい

lovely sweet

近頃

ちかごろ

lately, recently, nowadays

金庫

きんこ

safe, strongbox, cashbox, vault, strongroom depository, cash office, treasury, provider of funds

震える

ふるえる

to shiver, to shake, to quake, to tremble, to quaver, to quiver

一層

いっそう

much more, still more, all the more, more than ever single layer (or storey, etc.) rather, sooner, preferably

反抗

はんこう

opposition, resistance, insubordination, defiance, hostility, rebellion

加わる

くわわる

to be added to, to be appended to join in (e.g. a group of friends), to participate to increase (e.g. heat), to gain in (e.g. influence), to grow, to gather (speed) to be applied (e.g. heat, pressure), to be exerted

不自由

ふじゆう

discomfort, inconvenience poverty, want, destitution disability, impairment (physical, mental, etc.)