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Question 1

Valuable

Answer 1

貴重 - An object or person that is very important or expensive.

Question 2

attraction / attracting / attracted / attractive

Answer 2

魅力 - to catch the interested of someone or something. I spilled my drink and it attracted lots of bugs.

Question 3

attention

Answer 3

注意 - Attention
1, A warning. “attention, a train is coming”

or,
2, please can you look or listen to someone or something
eg, “Can I have your attention please, please look at my whiteboard”

Question 4

company

Answer 4

1. 会社 - Company, eg, NTT Docomo

2. To be near a friend or family. “I want some company, can you come to my house?”

Question 5

tradition, traditional

Answer 5

従来 - Usually something old, or something done for a long time. Often because of culture.

For example, “in Japan, we have traditional paper. It is made from old techniques.”
“Traditional foods, such as sushi or tempura are popular in Japan”

Question 6

Generation

Answer 6

世代 - A group of people born in a similar time. Eg, “My mothers generation, my grandmothers generation, my great grandmothers generation”.

Question 7

encourage

Answer 7

奨励 - To support or motivate a person or animal to do something.

“I want to encourage my mum to go back to school! She wants to become a lawyer.”

Question 8

disappear, disappearing

Answer 8

消える - to vanish.

“Unfortunately Koalas are disappearing due to wild fires in Australia.”

Question 9

products

Answer 9

製品 - objects, things you can buy at the store.

“Our products at Yodobashi Camera are the best!”

Question 10

Lifestyle

Answer 10

生活 様式 - The way people live.

“More and more people find a stressful lifestyle to be healthy.”

Question 11

overlaps

Answer 11

重なります / 重複 - to occupy the same area in part.

eg, The NCT concert overlaps with the NCT Dream concert.

Question 12

Emphasize

Answer 12

強調 - To highlight an important feature.

Eg. Ms Janie emphasized her blue eyes with dark mascara.

Question 13

Identify with, identifies

Answer 13

識別 - to feel for, to put oneself in the same place as.

Eg, Misaki is really stressed with the exams that we have next week. I identify with her, I feel the same!!

Question 14

organize

Answer 14

整理 - Organize your homework, textbooks, your room means for it to be clean and orderly.

“I organized my bedroom, it is much easier to find everything now that it is clean.”

Question 15

Arrest

Answer 15

逮捕 - To be caught by the police for doing a crime.

“I heard he was arrested because he stole a chocolate bar! Oh my god!”

Question 16

Detective

Answer 16

探偵 - A type of police officer who investigates serious crimes.

“There was a murder here, the detective is looking for clues.”

Question 17

Practical

Answer 17

実用的 - A practical person, idea or method is about thinking simply and logically.

hands on, realistic, sensible.

Eg. “I need a practical solution to deal with this noisy dog!”

Question 18

Complex

Answer 18

複雑 - Difficult, complicated, hard.

“This math question is very complex, I will need a computer to solve it.”

Question 19

informal

Answer 19

非公式 - Being relaxed. Opposite of formal.

“The party is informal, jeans are fine.”

Question 20

Minor

Answer 20

To mean young, not serious, or small (when used in math)

“He is a minor, he can not drink alcohol!”

“it’s only a minor mistake, don’t worry about it!”

Question 21

Movement

Answer 21

動き - move something.
A change (for eg, a political movement)

“This movement is about equality for the people!”

“A slight movement of the body”

Question 22

Operation

Answer 22

操作 or 手術 - A plan, or idea, or surgery.

“I can’t go to the party on Thursday, I have an operation on Wednesday”

“This is called operation rainbow! We will meet him on Friday and go to the candy restaurant for his birthday!”

Question 23

Benefit

Answer 23

利益 - An advantage or something positive.

“Since corona has been an issue some companies have struggled. The government will pay the companies to stay open. This will benefit everybody.”

Question 24

Quantity

Answer 24

量 - The amount of something.

“The family buys food in large quantity every Sunday.”

Question 25

Gradually

Answer 25

だんだんと - Slowly increase or decrease.

“I will gradually get better at speaking Japanese if I study every day.”

Question 26

consequently

Answer 26

したがいまして - as a result, so.

“She didn’t like the pudding; consequently, she threw it all away.”

Question 27

Electronically

Answer 27

電子 - Through digital device.

“I used an electronic mail to contact him”
“This is an electronic device, it needs to be charged to be used”

Question 28

previously

Answer 28

先に - before.

“Previously I worked for a boy band called BTS, I work at NCT now though”

Question 29

Translate

Answer 29

翻訳 - To change from one language to another, or to change one thing to another.

“I can translate English to Japanese if needed”

Question 30

Inspect

Answer 30

検査 - To look at something closely.

“She inspected the crime scene and found a thumb print”