My words

軍歴

ぐんれき

(ones) military service record

人数

にんずう ひとかず

the number of people

分岐点

ぶんきてん

junction, crossroads, division point, parting of ways

馬の骨

うまのほね

person of doubtful origin

恋路

こいじ

romance, loves pathway

勝負

しょうぶ

victory or defeat, match, contest, game, bout

手間取る

てまどる

to meet unexpected difficulties, to take time, to be delayed

損

そん

loss, disadvantage

ほざく

to say, to spatter, to prate, to prattle, to babble, to grumble, to murmur, to brawl

故国

ここく

ones native land

破綻

はたん

failure, bankruptcy

際限

さいげん

limits, end, bounds

瀬戸際

せとぎわ

brink, critical moment

尽くし

づくし ずくし

all sorts of, all kinds of

健勝

けんしょう

good health

加担

かたん

support, participation, assistance, complicity, conspiracy

傀儡

かいらい くぐつ かいらい、くぐつ

puppet, dummy prostitute

貶める

おとしめる

to show contempt for, to look down upon, to have a low opinion of to cause to fall, to make decline

引き付け

ひきつけ

convulsions

自明

じめい

obvious, self-evident, trivial, axiomatic, self-explanatory

映える

はえる

to shine, to look attractive, to look pretty

付け足し

つけたし

addition, appendix, supplement, postscript

余計

よけい

too many, too much, excessive, superfluous, superabundant, extra, spare, surplus unnecessary, needless, uncalled-for, otiose abundantly, excessively, needlessly, all the more

やり甲斐

やりがい

being worth doing

落とす

おとす

to drop, to lose, to let fall, to shed (light), to cast (ones gaze), to pour in (liquid), to leave behind to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.), to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair), to lose, to spend money at a certain place, to omit, to leave out, to secretly let escape to lose (a match), to reject (an applicant), to fail (a course), to defeat (in an election) to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice), to lessen (e.g. production or body weight), to worsen (quality), to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity), to speak badly of, to make light of, to fall into straitened circumstances to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin), to make ones own, to have ones bid accepted, to force surrender, to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle), to forcefully convince, to press for a confession, to deal with to download, to copy from a computer to another medium to make someone swoon (judo) to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line) to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)

餞

はなむけ

farewell gift, parting gift, viaticum

敗れる

やぶれる

to be defeated, to be beaten, to be unsuccessful, to lose

諦観

ていかん

clear vision, resignation (as in reconciling oneself)

辛気くさい

しんきくさい

irritating (e.g. tone of voice), fretful, boring (e.g. work), tedious (chore, person), depressing, dark (e.g. story)

カーテン

curtain, curtains