My words

些とも

ちっとも

not at all (neg. verb)

噂

うわさ

rumour, rumor, report, hearsay, gossip, common talk

冗談

じょうだん ぎだん げだん

jest, joke, funny story

探検家

たんけんか

explorer

発見

はっけん

discovery, detection, finding

発明

はつめい

invention, intelligent, clever, being enlightened, having the meaning of everything become clear, inventions

発展

はってん

development, growth, advancement, unfurling, expansion, extension, enlargement, playing around, having an active sex life

開発

かいはつ かいほつ

development, exploitation, development

新鮮

しんせん

fresh

繋ぐ

つなぐ

to tie, to fasten, to connect, to transfer (phone call)

現状

げんじょう

present condition existing state status quo

改める

あらためる

to change, to alter, to revise, to replace, to reform, to correct, to mend, to improve, to examine, to check, to inspect, to do properly, to do formally

苦しい

くるしい

painful, difficult, agonizing, needy, tight (budget), straitened (circumstances), forced (smile, joke), lame (excuse), strained (interpretation), awkward (situation), painful (position), (after masu stem) hard to do, unpleasant

結ぶ

むすぶ

to tie, to bind, to link, to bear (fruit), to close (e.g. deal), to confirm, to conclude, to connect (two distant places), to close tightly, to purse (e.g. lips), to unite (with), to ally, to join hands, join

光る

ひかる

to shine, to glitter, to be bright

水泳

すいえい

swimming

向かう

むかう

to face, to go towards

待つ

まつ

to wait, to await, to look forward to, to anticipate, to depend on, to need

形

かたち よう

form, shape, figure, visage

長方形

ちょうほうけい

rectangle, oblong, rectangle

過ごす

すごす

to pass (time), to spend, to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption), to drink (alcohol), to take care of, to support, to overdo, to do too much, to ... without acting on it

方角

ほうがく

direction, way, compass point, bearing

事件

じけん

event, affair, incident, case, plot, trouble, scandal

限り

かぎり

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

可決

かけつ

approval, adoption (e.g. motion, bill), passage

私鉄

してつ

private railway

起こす

おこす

to raise, to raise up, to set up, to pick up, to wake, to wake up, to waken, to awaken, to cause, to bring about, to lead to, to trigger, to give rise to, to create, to generate (e.g. heat, electricity), to produce, to start, to begin, to launch, to establish, to found, to set up, to open, to plough, to plow, to till, to fall ill with, to transcribe, to write down (what is spoken), to turn over (a card)

労働者

ろうどうしゃ

employee, worker, laborer (labourer), blue-collar worker

組合

くみあい

association, union, guild

スト

strike (i.e. industrial action)