My words

国会

こっかい

National Diet, parliament, congress

農水産物

Nōsui sanbutsu

agricultural and marine products

良心

りょうしん

conscience

財源

ざいげん

source of funds, resources, finances

配属

はいぞく

assignment (of a person to somewhere), attachment (of a person to another unit, organization, etc.)

親しく

したしく

intimately, personally, in person

揺らぐ

ゆらぐ

to swing, to sway, to shake, to tremble, to waver, to feel shaken, to become unstable

甲殻類

こうかくるい

crustacean

主張

しゅちょう

claim, request, insistence, assertion, advocacy, emphasis, contention, opinion, tenet

発給

はっきゅう

issuance (e.g. of a passport), issuing

熱帯植物

ねったいしょくぶつ

tropical plant

膃肭臍

おっとせい オットセイ

fur seal (esp. the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus), Alaskan fur seal

飢える

うえる かつえる

to starve, to thirst, to be hungry

魂消る

たまぎる たまげる

to be astonished, to be startled, to be appalled

選挙運動

せんきょうんどう

election campaign, political campaign, campaigning, electioneering, canvassing

施設

しせつ

institution, establishment, facility, (army) engineer

公約

こうやく

public commitment, public promise, campaign pledge, official vow

近隣

きんりん

neighbourhood, neighborhood, vicinity

賞罰

しょうばつ

rewards and punishments

早急

さっきゅう そうきゅう

immediate, prompt, quick, rapid, urgent, pressing

改革

かいかく

reform, reformation, innovation

認知症

にんちしょう

cognitive impairment, senility, dementia, dementia

割

わり かつ

profit, assignment, 10%, unit of ten percent, match, schedule of matches, diluted with (of drinks), mixed with, sumo that can't be played.

削減

さくげん

cut, reduction, curtailment

業務

ぎょうむ

business, affairs, duties, work, procedure, task, action, function, (business) operations, operational

ぼそぼそ

dry and crumbling, whispering, subdued, murmuring, muttering, tasteless, flavorless, flavourless

開講

かいこう

holding a course (of lectures), offering a course, beginning a series of one's lectures, starting a new course

身代金

Minoshirokin

ransom

蒸発

じょうはつ

disappearance (of people intentionally concealing their whereabouts), unexplained disappearance, evaporation

現時点

げんじてん

present point (i.e. in history), at the present time