My words

一元

いちげん

unitary

保存

ほぞん

preservation conservation storage saving (eg to disk) maintenance

帯域

たいいき

zone, band, belt, bandwidth

機構

きこう

mechanism, organization, organisation

属性

ぞくせい

attribute, property, context

破損

はそん

damage

氷柱

つらら ひょうちゅう

icicle, ice pillar, ice

散財

さんざい

expense, waste of money, extravagance

贅沢

ぜいたく

luxury, extravagance, to live in luxury

nuclear family

核家族

露天

ろてん

open air

遭遇

そうぐう

encounter, being confronted with (e.g. difficulty), meeting with (e.g. accident)

拠点

きょてん

position, location, base, point

趣旨

しゅし

meaning, point (e.g. of a statement), gist, effect, goal, intent, object, aim, point

在籍

ざいせき

enrollment, enrolment

審議

しんぎ

deliberation

時系列

じけいれつ

chronological order, time series

引き寄せる

ひきよせる

to draw or pull something towards oneself (e.g. chair)

面影

おもかげ

face, looks, vestiges, trace

未知数

みちすう

unknown number, unknown quantity, variable

研ぎ澄ます

とぎすます

to sharpen, to grind, to whet, to hone, to make keen

穿つ

うがつ

to drill, to bore, to pierce, to put on, to wear, to be true to (nature), to hit (the mark)

音をあげる

ねをあげる

to give up, to admit defeat, to throw in the towel

秀逸

しゅういつ

excellence

次元

じげん

dimension, perspective, point of reference, level (of something)

予め

あらかじめ

beforehand, in advance, previously

反故にする

ほごにする

to throw away as useless, to scrap, to make null and void, to renege, to annul, to revoke

仕入れる

しいれる

to lay in stock, to replenish stock, to procure, to learn something that might be useful later

嗅ぎ取る

かぎとる

to smell, to sense

大っぴら

おおっぴら

open, public, overt, free, unreserved, uninhibited