My words

収穫

しゅうかく

harvest, crop, ingathering, fruits (of one's labors), results

突っ込む

つっこむ

to thrust (something) into (something), to cram, to plunge into, to go into deeply, to get involved with, to meddle, to poke one's nose into, to riposte, to retort, to quip

潜り込む

もぐりこむ

to slip into, to crawl into (under), to conceal oneself (under), to sneak into, to infiltrate

発想

はっそう

expression, idea, way of thinking, conception

散々

さんざん

thoroughly, completely, utterly, severely, harshly, terribly, miserably, wretchedly, badly, scattered, disconnected, dispersed, smashed into tiny pieces

依頼主

いらいぬし

client

遺伝子

いでんし

gene, genetic, genes, gene

本能

ほんのう

instinct, instinct

受け継ぐ

うけつぐ

to inherit, to succeed, to take over

即ち

すなわち

that is, namely, i.e.

群れ

むれ

group, crowd, flock, herd, bevy, school, swarm, cluster (e.g. of stars), clump, pack (e.g. of dogs)

講義

こうぎ

lecture

盾

たて

shield, buckler, escutcheon, pretext

勘

かん

perception, intuition, the sixth sense

参った

まいった

I'm beaten, I give up

鈍い

にぶい のろい

dull (e.g. a knife), blunt, thickheaded, obtuse, stupid, dull (sound, color, etc.), dim (light), slow, sluggish, inert, lethargic, indulgent (esp. to the opposite sex), doting

察する

さっする

to guess, to sense, to presume, to judge, to sympathize with, to sympathise with

敵対

てきたい

hostility, antagonism, opposition

刑事

けいじ

(police) detective, criminal matter

徹底

てってい

thoroughness, completeness, consistency, thorough enforcement, seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

ここん所

ここんとこ

recently, lately, these days

見失う

みうしなう

to lose sight of, to miss

潜在能力

せんざいのうりょく

potential, latent faculties, potential capacities

安易

あんい

easy, simple, easy-going

探り

さぐり

sounding, probing, probe, stylet, spy

異質

いしつ

different (quality, nature), heterogeneous

防ぐ

ふせぐ

to defend (against), to protect, to prevent

司令塔

しれいとう

control tower, conning tower, leader, boss

触手

しょくしゅ

feeler, tentacle

手一杯

ていっぱい

having one's hands full, not having any room to do more, at the limit