Intermediate 11/29

Vocab

100

小さい

Small/little

200

答え(こたえ)

Answer

300

万が一(まんがいち)

Very unlikely/for some possibility

400

大学院(だいがくいん)

Grad school

500

しくじる

To fail/to blunder

Grammar

100

そして(そして誰もいなくなった)

And then/thus

200

まま(ありのままの姿を見せる)

As it is/without changing

300

べきではない(月曜の昼から昼寝をするべきではない)

Should not

400

ざるを得ない(Aを取るためには勉強せざるを得ない)

cannot help/have no choice but to

500

ためしがない(彼はテストで100点をとったためしがない)

Has never happened/is never the case

Kanji

100

先生

Teacher

200

森林

Forest

300

犯罪

Crime

400

紹介

Introduce

500

審議

Delibaration/consideration

Culture

100

True or False: Russia is 50x bigger than Japan

False, 45x

200

This Japanese TV show was the inspiration for the show “American Ninja Warrior”

Sasuke

300

Find the outlier: 回転焼き　大判焼き　今川焼　生姜焼き

生姜焼き

400

Kabuki, a Japanese play, originated from a dance in this year

1603

500

Japan has this number world heritage sites.

25

Random

100

This type of poem has 14 more letters than a Haiku

Tanka(短歌)

200

Name a word in English that came from Japanese

Tsunami, Karaoke, Umami, etc

300

Name a word that exists in Japanese but not in English

木漏れ日、積読、etc

400

Read: 段階　階　段

きざはし

500

Sususmu Tonegawa, earned this prize on biology/biochemistry in 1982

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize