Babel - Volume 4 – Vocabulary list

年としを取とる

to grow old; to age

1

せめぎあう

to fight each other

1

後あと付づけ

appendix; postscript; retrofit; post-installation; giving a reason afterwards; making an excuse after the event

1

刃は物もの

edged tool; cutlery

2

命いのち乞ごい

begging for one's life; pleading for one's life

1

やたら

indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive

1

口くちうるさい

nagging; faultfinding; carping; captious

1

正せい義ぎ

justice; right; righteousness; correct meaning; correct explanation

1

偏へん狭きょう

narrow-mindedness; intolerance; illiberality; narrowness

1

物もの事ごと

things; everything

1

人じん種しゅ

race (of people); type of person

3

嗜し好こう

taste; liking; preference

2

依い頼らい人にん

client; requester

1

子こ供どもじみた

childish; child-like; immature; infantile

1

感かん銘めい

deep impression

1

批ひ判はん

criticism; judgement; judgment; comment

2

脅おどす

to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)

1

陳ちん腐ぷ

stale; hackneyed; cliched

1

愚おろかしい

foolish; stupid

1

苛いら々いら

to get irritated; to get annoyed; to be on the edge; to fret; to lose patience

1

死しに至いたる

to result in death; to lead to death; to be fatal (e.g. disease)

3

限かぎる

to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan

1

必ひつ要ようとする

to need; to call for; to require

2

前ぜん兆ちょう

omen; portent; sign; premonition; harbinger; precursor

1

余よ韻いん

reverberation; swelling (of a hymn); lingering memory; aftertaste; suggestiveness (of a book, poem, etc.)

1

ほう

oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.; hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute)

3

姿すがたを隠かくす

to hide; to conceal oneself

1

水すい位い

water level

1

誰すい何か

challenging (an unknown person); asking a person's identity

1

遠えん慮りょのない

unreserved

1

平へい和わを保たもつ

to maintain (preserve) peace

1

さる

a particular; a certain; that kind of; such a

1

昂こう揚よう

elevation (of spirits); raising (of morale); uplift; upsurge

1

抜ぬき放はなつ

to unsheathe

1

左さ腕わん

left arm; left-handed (baseball pitcher)

3

しなやか

supple; flexible; elastic; graceful; elegant; refined

2

風かぜが強つよい

windy; windswept; blowy

1

代かわり映ばえ

change for the better; improvement; looking better (than before)

1

いく人にん

how many people

1

泡沫うたかた

bubble on surface of liquid; ephemeral; transient

2

拙つたない

poor-quality; shoddy; unskillful; inexpert; unlucky

1

十じゅう代だい

the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation

1

未み熟じゅく

unripe; green; inexperienced; immature; unskilled

1

ぞんざい

rough; careless; slovenly; slipshod; rude; impolite

1

侵しん入にゅう者しゃ

intruder; invader; trespasser; raider

1

携たずさえる

to carry in one's hand; to carry with one; to have on one's person; to take along (someone); to take (someone) with one; to be accompanied by

1

大たい言げん壮そう語ご

big talk; boasting; bragging

1

滑なめらか

smooth (of a surface); glassy; smooth (of an action, proceedings, etc.); fluent (speech); continuously differentiable

1

顕けん著ちょ

remarkable; striking; obvious

1

相あい手てをする

to keep company; to look after; to entertain; to play (a game) with

1

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Vocabulary list: Babel - Volume 4