第110回

Question 1

肥料

Answer 1

ひりょう
fertilizer, manure
**(1st) fertilizer: flesh…mosaic…
This is a gruesome fertilizer of flesh, but it grows the most beautiful mosaic of flowers. 1893
**(2nd) fee: measuring cup…rice….
How would students pay their school material fees before modernization? They would bring home grown rice and teachers would measure out a sufficient amount. 1262
**ALL: fertilizer…fee….
Fertilizer is the fee you pay to have healthy plants.
(pronunciation) when the ひ shines on it, it smells really bad.

Question 2

肥やし

Answer 2

こやし
manure, fertilizer
**fertilizer: flesh…mosaic…
This is a gruesome fertilizer of flesh, but it grows the most beautiful mosaic of flowers. 1893
(pronunciation) you need こやし to grow your small（こ）やさい

Question 3

脈

Answer 3

みゃく
pulse, pulsation, vein
**vein: part of the body…drag…rag….
The part of your body most effected by these drag queens dressed in barely rags of clothes (revealing) is your veins. Your pulse is so fast. 2000

Question 4

膨大な

Answer 4

ぼうだいな
enormous (amount of)
**(1st) swell: flesh/part of the body…drum…shape…
When someone is pregnant the flesh of their stomach swells up, you can play it like a drum. It takes on a very strange shape. 1855
(middle part) drum: samurai…bean….
Samurai had a special kind of drum that they played by throwing beans at. pg.333
**ALL: swell…big…

Question 5

膨らむ

Answer 5

ふくらむ
swell, expand, bulge
**swell: flesh/part of the body…drum…shape…
When someone is pregnant the flesh of their stomach swells up, you can play it like a drum. It takes on a very strange shape. 1855
(middle part) drum: samurai…bean….
Samurai had a special kind of drum that they played by throwing beans at. pg.333

Question 6

選択肢

Answer 6

せんたくし
choices, options
**(2nd) choose: fingers…shakuhachi….
How did I choose the shakuhachi I got? I took (fingers) the cheapest one. 1155
**(3rd) limb: flesh/part of the body…branch…
Our limbs are like flesh branches. 771
**ALL: elect…choose….limb….

Question 7

枯れる

Answer 7

かれる
wither
**wither: tree…old….
The old tree withered away in the nursery home. 219
(pronunciation) think: it withered away to leave just a から

Question 8

杉

Answer 8

すぎ
Japanese cedar
**cedar: tree…shape…
The most tree shaped trees are cedars. 1849

Question 9

彫刻

Answer 9

ちょうこく
sculpture, a sculpture
**(1st) carve: circumference…shape…
There were carvings around the circumference of the crown in the shape of llamas, marking it as Kuzco’s. 1846
**ALL: carve…engrave….
Some of the marks in the sculpture were carved “super deep”（ちょうこく）

Question 10

彫る

Answer 10

ほる
carve, engrave, chisel
**carve: circumference…shape…
There were carvings around the circumference of the crown in the shape of llamas, marking it as Kuzco’s. 1846

Question 11

髪の毛

Answer 11

かみのけ
hair (on the head)
**(1st) hair of the head: hair…shape….friend…
One of my favorite things is to have the hair on my head shaped by a friend. 2074
**ALL: hair of the head…fur…

Question 12

白髪の (two pronunciations)

Answer 12

はくはつの／しらがの
gray-haired, white-haired
**(2nd) hair of the head: hair…shape….friend…
One of my favorite things is to have the hair on my head shaped by a friend. 2074

Question 13

珍しい

Answer 13

めずらしい
rare, unusual, precious
**rare: jewel…umbrella…shape….
The jewel was so rare that they put an umbrella over it to protect it from the elements and preserve its shape. 1859

Question 14

珍客

Answer 14

ちんきゃく
unexpected visitor, welcome guest
**(1st) rare: jewel…umbrella…shape….
The jewel was so rare that they put an umbrella over it to protect it from the elements and preserve its shape. 1859
**ALL (pronunciation) the ちん is an unexpected but welcome guest