# 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 ☃❄

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**1 月 16 日**  
コナの大冒険 第24話 🐈‍⬛

Just a little more than halfway through Kona’s adventures! Although nothing much has happened! We end the episode with a hawk circling from above. And I wonder if it’s eyeing Kona as its prey…

> **Words learned:**
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> - 恐る恐る with trepidation, trembling with fear, fearfully, timidly
> - 優雅 elegance, grace, refinement
> - タカ falcon, hawk

> **Replies**
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> > [@polv](#):
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> > ### SFX
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> > - ぞっこん = madly in love
> > - しゅるしゅる = rustling sound (e.g. of silk)
> > - メキメキ = sound of breaking, creaking
> > - わらわら = bustling; scattering; creeping in (like of a gang of people)
> > - オメオメ = being shameless; resigned to disgrace
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> I really like this SFX part of your interesting words! I think I should start noting those down too to prepare for reading more manga!
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> > [@windupbird](#):
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> > Today I learned the phrase 偕老同穴 (かいろうどうけつ) - happy life partnership; living faithfully together till death. It’s also the name of [a sea sponge](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A6%E3%83%89%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B1%E3%83%84) xD The sponge is so named because one male shrimp and one female shrimp live together inside the sponge for their entire lives (because they literally can’t get out, they get in when they’re larvae and then grow too big to leave 😅 While the implication is supposed to be romantic and the sponge is considered a symbol of undying love/sometimes given as an engagement or wedding gift, I don’t know how romantic it sounds when I think about that part of it 😂).
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> My goodness that story behind the etymology of the name of the sea sponge sounds so morbid but I love it! 😅 Thanks for sharing! One more trivia/fun fact I can collect about sea creatures! The secrets of the ocean always amaze me!

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