Dec 7, Wed of Week 11 of Fall 2022 
- はたらく細胞 Vol.2 Ch.9 (end volume)
Cancer have a heart too.
- Death Note Vol.5 Ch.42
Saving the baka. Of course, gone well and useful in the end.
- かがみの孤城 (上) 96% => 100% (end volume) + (下) 0 => 8% (half of January)
I read the book and listened along with audiobook, speed 1.2x. I consider this one primarily listening activity; but I update here, just for the sake of ending the volume.
Listening along with transcript allows me to highlight vocabularies (rather than Google Translate immediately, and not saved); and Bookwalker makes page flipping very nice to do, and easy to read fast.
Interesting vocabularies
- 漁る hunting “in a morning game”. I also saw 漁る (hunt 取る that fights sand clock 砂時計), so can’t be entirely sure…
- 姑息 temporary / palliative. Just this first Kanji as grandma (mother-in-law)'s advice.
- 融通 lending money / adaptability. Perhaps originally 融通 (i.e. Rendaku, and no sound differences in most dialects).
- 傍観 spectatorship. Watching (観る) that can protect themselves (防御). Kanji is for side (傍ら)
- 伸び盛り growth period. Rendaku’d too.
- 博する to earn fame (becoming 博士)
- 隠蔽 covering up. Second Kanji has that kind of meaning.
- 折り返し (電話) calling back
- 手懐ける to tame. Latter half is 懐ける, can be thought of 名付ける.
- 段取り schedule
- 伝言 voice message, can be like answering machine or voice SMS.
- 宣伝 propaganda. Announce, then pass forward.
- 転落 a struggling man would trip over a little (転ぶ), before really collapse (没落)
- 凝る fixed gaze (凝視), like paying attention to details
- ヘボい clumsy, like “Hey Boy, clumsy work you did”. Another form is へぼ. Perhaps 下手 + ぼろぼろ.
- 染色体 stained body = chromosome. First Kanji reading is same as 感染, 汚染.
- 小胞体 endoplasmic reticulum. Small sac in a cell = it does look like a bag.
- われもの fragile items. Kanji form is 割れ物. Indeed, 割れ物注意.
- 担架 = stretcher. Many words with this same reading (たんか), though.
- 関与 taking part in. 与 can mean together in, e.g. 参与.
- バグり to be buggy (バグ)
- どん底 bottom-most
- 包囲 encirclement
- お縄 policeman’s rope
- 活発化 activation: 活発 lively
- 良心 conscience
- 風化 weathering, including fading of memories
- 手違い blunder
- 不摂生 unhealthy living. The opposite is indeed 摂生.
- 付録 appendix
- 頓着 concerns. 頓着しない no worries (e.g. about money)
- 煙突 chimney, like thrust up a chimney.
- 強張る to get stiffened. Learnt a little beforehand in Most Recent Japanese Word thread.
- 色素 pigment
SFX
- ずけずけ hesitantly
Phrases
- 肝に銘じる The latter part 銘じる is to engrave. 肝 is actually liver, but that’s where old people takes the courage.
- 異議なし no objection, but the word just some similar to 意義 (significance) and 異義 (different meaning).
- 一騎討ち one-on-one fight. Second Kanji is horse-riding.
- 手を引く to back out from the case
- 打ち抜く to stamp out
- 負け惜しみ not willing (惜しむ) to admit defeat (負け). Perhaps like 未練がましい
- 立ち向かう to stand and face = to oppose
- 引っ掛かる to get caught in
- たりとも…ない not even. …といえども。…ではあっても。
- 度肝を抜く to astonish. 度肝 is very bold (ド肝).
- ご愁傷さま Please accept my sympathy / My condolences. The vocabulary is 愁傷 = sorrow.
Forgotten ones
- 気合い fighting spirit
- 接待 entertainment, like a must (絶対, but with head-high)
- 出来損ない a defective article. 損なう can mean to make failure (失う) (and also to harm).
- そっぽを向く to face the opposite side
- 燻る like 煙振り
- 屈託のない free from worries. 屈託 worries. No retreat, no entrusting.
- 一瞥 a glance, a particular (別) glance. – 「一瞥（いちべつ）」の意味と使い方！「一瞥をくれる」とは？【類義語・対義語】｜語彙力.com