Vocablary blog #6
July 13, 2009
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rancher: a person who owns, manages or works on a ranch.
In Japanese: 牧場経営者
My aunt is a rancher.
lottery: by selling tickets that have different numbers on them that people
have chosen. Numbers are then chosen by chance and the people who have
those numbers on their tickets win prizes.
In Japanese: 宝くじ
I bought lottery tickets.
aptly: adequately.
In Japanese: 適切に
I spoke her about future aptly.
feed: to give food to a person or an animal.
In Japanese: えさを与える
I fed the cat.
accurately: exactly.
In Japanese: 正確に
You need to hit the ball accurately.
enhance: to increase or further improve the good quality, value or the
company.
In Japanese: 高める
This apartment need to enhance security.
liver: a large organ in the body that produces BILE and cleans the blood.
In Japanese: レバー
I ate liver.
hangover: the headache and sick feeling that you have the day after
drinking too much alcohol.
In Japanese: 二日酔い
Yesterday I drank a lot, so I have a hangover.
metabolize: to turn food, minerals, etc. in the body into new calls, energy
and waste products by mean of chemical processes.
In Japanese: 新陳代謝させる
An exercise metabolizes our bodies.
toxic: containing poison.
In Japanese: 中毒性の／有毒な
I treat toxic chemicals.
vanish: to disappear suddenly and in a way that you can’t explain.
In Japanese: 消える
The magician vanished in smoke.
landscape: everything you can see when you look across a large area of
land.
In Japanese: 景色
I took a picture of beautiful landscape.
woodland: an area of land that is covered with trees.
In Japanese: 森林地帯
I went to woodland in Asia.
dementia: a serious mental disorder caused by brain disease or injury, that
affects ability to think.
In Japanese: 痴呆
My grandmother afflict dementia.
lukewarm: slightly warm.
In Japanese: ぬるい
That water is lukewarm.
maximize: to increase as much as possible.
In Japanese:
The company maximized profits.
solid: hard or firm.
In Japanese: 固体の／固い
The drink has frozen solid.
Riddle: a question that is difficult to understand.
In Japanese: 難問/なぞ
I like reading a riddle.
aspire: to have a strong desire to achieve or to become.
In Japanese: 切望する
I aspire to be famous.
reclaim: to get back or to ask to have it back after it has been lost, taken away, etc.
In Japanese: 更生させる
We reclaimed a boy from a life of vice.
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