第106回

Question 1

炊事

Answer 1

すいじ
cooking, kitchen work
**(1st) cook: fire…yawning….
The cook was being lazy and yawning over in the corner while the kitchen was on fire. 507
**ALL (pronunciation): cooking time is smoking time (すいじ) for this house wife because the smoke from cooking and smoking mix and her husband can’t tell.

Question 2

炊く

Answer 2

たく
cook (rice)
**cook: fire…yawning….
The cook was being lazy and yawning over in the corner while the kitchen was on fire. 507

Question 3

〜冊

Answer 3

〜さつ

counter for books

Question 4

基盤

Answer 4

きばん
foundation, basis, base
**(1st) fundamentals: bushel basket….soil….
The items that the refugee was given in the bushel basket were all the fundamentals, so they could start building their lives from the ground up. 1904
**(2nd) tray: carrier…dish….
A carrier for dishes? That would be called a tray. 2017
(top half) carrier: boat…missile….
Something that is cryptically just called a carrier is probably a military boat carrying missiles for war. 2016
**ALL: fundamentals….tray….
The foundation that is holding up all the dishes for your meal is the fundamental object, the tray.

Question 5

お盆

Answer 5

おぼん
the Bon festival, tray
**basin: part…dish….
The water basin is the part of the kitchen that is used for washing dishes. 1557

Question 6

煮る

Answer 6

にる
boil, simmer, cook (for a medium length of time)
(にこむ is long, ゆでる is short)
**boil: puppet…oven fire…
Pinnocio often lied, and it was hard to get him to tell the truth. But if he was threatened with being boiled alive, he would come clean. 1346

Question 7

警察署

Answer 7

けいさつしょ
police station
**(1st) admonish: awe…words….
Someone erai, that you are in awe of, is saying harsh, admonishing words to you. 358
(top half) awe: flowery phrases….taskmaster…
When you are in awe of someone erai like a taskmaster, you use flowery language (keigo). 356
**(2nd) guess: house…ritual…
Guessing the future is a ritual called divination usually performed in a special house. 1184
(bottom part) ritual: flesh…crotch…altar….
The coven had a grotesque ritual in which the body for sacrifice was laid with their flesh bare, 又 visible, on the alter and killed. 1183
**(3rd) signature: eye…puppet…
If you have a good eye, you can become a “puppet signer” where you imitate peoples signatures. 1349
**ALL: admonish….guess….signature….
The job of the police is to admonish people who do things wrong and guess at who committed crimes. And the police station is where you are taken to sign a statement that you did something wrong.

Question 8

罰

Answer 8

ばつ
punishment, penalty
**penalty: eye…words…saber…
The policeman sees you doing something wrong. He says a few stern words, and then as a penalty cuts you with his saber. 896

Question 9

罰する

Answer 9

ばっする
punish, penalize
**penalty: eye…words…saber…
The policeman sees you doing something wrong. He says a few stern words, and then as a penalty cuts you with his saber. 896

Question 10

罰が当たる

Answer 10

ばちがあたる
receive divine punishment, pay for it
**(1st) penalty: eye…words…saber…
The policeman sees you doing something wrong. He says a few stern words, and then as a penalty cuts you with his saber. 896

Question 11

型

Answer 11

かた
model, pattern, mold, type
**mould: punish…soil….
Using two hands, take a saber and mould the soil into a certain type of patter. 735

Question 12

典型的な

Answer 12

てんけいてきな
typical
**(1st) code: bend…tool…
Once you have control of the alien’s brain, it then becomes your tool to break the code of the door that keeps you trapped. 1969
**(2nd) mould: punish…soil….
Using two hands, take a saber and mould the soil into a certain type of patter. 735
**ALL: code…mould….
When something is typical, it follows the same code as all the others and is moulded to look the same.

Question 13

刺す

Answer 13

さす
stab, pierce, sting
**thorn: tree…belt…saber…
A thorny vine wrapped itself around the tree like a belt. Each thorn cut into the tree like a little saber. 446

Question 14

風刺

Answer 14

ふうし
satirize
**(2nd) thorn: tree…belt…saber…
A thorny vine wrapped itself around the tree like a belt. Each thorn cut into the tree like a little saber. 446
**ALL wind…thorn…
Satire can cause quite the stir, like a big gust of wind. And it can stab like a thorn.

Question 15

削減

Answer 15

さくげん
reduce, cut down (money)
(on a big level: city, government, etc.)
**(1st) plane: spark/candle…saber….
Using a spark (candle) of heat and the firm swipe and press of a blade, the craftsman was able to to mould the warm mettle into a flat plane. 124
**(2nd) dwindle: water…march…mouth….
A group of mouths (people) marched across the desert drinking their water sparsely, but eventually their water dwindled and so did their numbers. 391
**ALL: plane…dwindle…
When resources are reduced/cut down, the amount of things laid out, available for people, on the flat plane dwindles.

Question 16

削る

Answer 16

けずる
sharpen (a pencil), curtail, cut down, delete
**plane: spark/candle…saber….
Using a spark (candle) of heat and the firm swipe and press of a blade, the craftsman was able to to mould the warm mettle into a flat plane. 124