My words

有象無象

うぞうむぞう

mob, the masses, rabble, riffraff

償う

つぐなう

to make up for, to recompense, to redeem (ones faults), to compensate for, to indemnify, to atone for

猛々しい

たけだけしい

ferocious

交通の便

こうつうのべん

convenience for transportation, convenience of access (by road or rail)

他愛のない

たわいのない

silly, foolish, absurd, childish, easy, trifling, guileless

食卓

しょくたく

dining table

漕ぐ

こぐ

to row, to scull, to paddle, to pedal (e.g. bicycle), to swing (on a swing), to operate a hand pump, to push through (deep snow, the jungle, etc.)

乗っける

のっける

to place on (something)

潜める

ひそめる

to hide, to conceal, to lower volume (of a sound or ones voice) so as not to be heard, to become quiet and inconspicuous

法人

ほうじん

corporate body, corporation, (legal) person, (juridical) person

突き通す

つきとおす

to pierce, to penetrate

引き落す

ひきおとす

to pull down, to automatically debit (from a bank account)

協調性

きょうちょうせい

cooperativeness, spirit of cooperation

原則

げんそく

principle, general rule

検定

けんてい

official certification, approval, inspection

噛ます

かます

to force something into someones mouth (i.e. a gag), to wedge something into a space, filling it, to inflict (a blow), to deal (a hit), to pull (a joke), to say or do (something stupid), to try (a bluff)

棚卸

たなおろし

stocktaking, inventory count

現行

げんこう

present, current, in operation

資本

しほん

funds, capital

改良

かいりょう

improvement, reform

百発百中

ひゃっぱつひゃくちゅう

always hitting the bulls-eye, infallible

免除

めんじょ

exemption, exoneration, discharge

癒着

ゆちゃく

adhesion, conglutination, collusion, collusive relationship

経理

けいり

management, accounting

稼働

かどう

operation (of machine), operating, running, working

介在

かいざい

mediation, interposition, intervention

設計者

せっけいしゃ

designer

耐性

たいせい

resistance (e.g. to antibiotics)

短縮

たんしゅく

shortening, abbreviation, reduction

経緯

いきさつ けいい たてぬき たてよこ

details, particulars, whole story, sequence of events, chronology, circumstances, how it started, how things got this way, longitude and latitude, warp and weft, warp and woof