My words

数冊

すうさつ

several volumes (books)

違和感

いわかん

uncomfortable feeling, feeling out of place, sense of discomfort malaise, physical unease

使い古す

つかいふるす

to wear out (something)

黄ばむ

きばむ

to turn yellow, to yellow with age

疑問

ぎもん

question, problem, doubt, guess

当然

とうぜん

natural, as a matter of course, justified, deserved, reasonable

謎

なぞ

riddle, puzzle, enigma, mystery enigmatic, mysterious

解く

ほどく とく

to untie, to unfasten, to unwrap, to undo, to unbind, to unpack to unsew, to unstitch to solve, to work out, to answer to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.), to clear up, to remove (suspicion), to appease to dissolve (a contract), to cancel, to remove (a prohibition), to lift (a ban), to raise (a siege) to release (from duty), to relieve, to dismiss to comb (out), to card, to untangle (hair) solve

目をやる

めをやる

to look towards

真っ暗

まっくら

total darkness, pitch dark bleak future, poor prospects

限り

かぎり

limit, limits, bounds degree, extent, scope as far as possible, as much as possible, to the best of ones ability, very much unless (after neg. verb) the end, the last as long as, only

仏壇

ぶつだん

Buddhist (household) altar

遺影

いえい

portrait of deceased person

寸前

すんぜん

on the verge, on the brink, just in front of, just before

首を振る

くびをふる

to shake ones head

飽くまで

あくまで

to the end, to the bitter end, to the last, stubbornly, persistently, consistently, to the utmost after all, it must be remembered, only, purely, simply

そっくり

そっくり

all, altogether, entirely, completely exactly like, just like

認知症

にんちしょう

cognitive impairment, senility, dementia dementia

患者

かんじゃ

(a) patient patients

異変

いへん

unusual phenomenon, unusual event, abnormal event, accident

生じる

しょうじる

to produce, to yield, to cause to result from, to arise, to be generated

戸惑う

とまどう

to be bewildered, to be perplexed

一口食べる

ひとくちたべる いちくちたべる

to eat a mouthful

脱衣所

だついじょ だついしょ

dressing room, bath house

敷く

しく

to spread out, to lay out to take a position to impose widely (e.g. over a city)

畳む

たたむ

to fold (clothes) to close (a shop) to vacate

困惑

こんわく

bewilderment, perplexity, embarrassment, discomfiture, bafflement

咄嗟

とっさ

moment, instant

ちんたら

ちんたら

dilatorily, sluggishly to take a lot of time, to become late, to take it easy

有無

うむ ゆうむ

consent or refusal, yes or no flag indicator, presence or absence marker existence or nonexistence presence or absence