Opera Series - Volume 5 – Vocabulary list

砕くだける

to break (into pieces); to be broken; to collapse; to crumble; to become less formal; to throw off reserve

2

悪あく夢む

nightmare; bad dream

2

湿しめす

to wet; to moisten; to dampen

1

悲ひ壮そう

tragic but brave; heroic; grim; pathetic

1

童どう顔がん

child's face; childlike face; boyish face; baby face

1

取とり替かえる

to exchange; to swap; to barter; to replace; to substitute

1

すてき

lovely; wonderful; nice; great; fantastic; superb

2

引ひきちぎる

to tear off

1

全ぜん体たいに

generally

1

隆りゅう起き

protuberance; bulge; protrusion; rise; uplift; upheaval

1

古こ木ぼく

old tree

1

有ゆう機き的てき

organic; coordinated; working in a coordinated fashion

1

凹おう凸とつ

unevenness; bumpiness; roughness; imbalance; inequality; unevenness

1

脈みゃく打うつ

to pound (e.g. heart); to pulse (e.g. vein); to pulsate

1

色しょく

counter for colours

2

軸じく

axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem

1

舞まう

to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve

1

弧こを描えがく

to draw an arc (e.g. with a compass); to describe an arc (e.g. through the air)

1

あり得えない

impossible; unlikely; improbable

1

退しさる

to step back; to walk backwards

1

やりなおす

to do over again; to redo; to start over; to remake; to resume; to recommence

1

議ぎ長ちょう

chair; chairman; chairperson; speaker (of an assembly); president (of a council, senate, etc.)

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駐ちゅう屯とん

stationing (troops); occupancy

1

直じき訴そ

direct appeal

1

急きゅう進しん派は

radical faction or group

1

若わか手て

young person

1

砂すな原はら

sandy plain; desert

2

たくらむ

to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up

2

辺あたり一いっ帯たい

all around; as far as the eye can see

1

水すい源げん

source of river; fountainhead

1

大たい洋よう

ocean

1

楽らく園えん

paradise; Eden; Elysium

1

すみか

dwelling; house; residence; den; habitat

1

牙きば

tusk; fang

1

面めん

face; mask; face guard; (in kendo) striking the head; surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect

1

疾しっ風ぷう

gale; strong wind; swift wind; fresh breeze (Beaufort scale)

1

青あお

blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature

2

吹ふき散ちらす

to scatter; to blow about; (arch.) to spread a rumor; (arch.) to talk around

1

かき消けす

to erase; to drown out (e.g. a voice); to make disappear

1

守しゅ護ご

protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)

1

統とう制せい

regulation; control

1

ごうごう

thunderous; rumbling; thunderously; rumblingly

1

漆しっ黒こく

jet black

1

翌よく日じつ

next day

2

見み栄え

show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture

1

ぎらつく

to glare; to dazzle; to glitter

2

図と書しょ室しつ

library (usu. single-room); small library

3

めくる

to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up

1

小こ難むずかしい

slightly difficult; somewhat bothersome; troublesome; peevish; querulous

1

監かん督とく

supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor

1

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Vocabulary list: Opera Series - Volume 5