JLPT N1 Vocabulary List - Page 17

This is a list of the vocabulary that you need to know in order to pass the JLPT N1. In total, you will need to have a vocabulary of about 2336 words.

#	Word	Reading	Meaning
801	崩壊	ほうかい houkai	collapse, crumbling	Study
802	嵌まる	はまる hamaru	to fit, to get into, to go into, to be fitted with (e.g. door with a window)	Study
803	嵩む	かさむ kasamu	to mount up, to pile up, to accumulate, to increase	Study
804	嵩張る	かさばる kasabaru	to be bulky, to be unwieldy, to grow voluminous	Study
805	工学	こうがく kougaku	engineering	Study
806	左利き	ひだりきき hidarikiki	left-handedness, left-handed person, left-hander	Study
807	巧み	たくみ takumi	skillful, adroit, dexterous, masterful, clever, ingenious, cunning	Study
808	巧妙	こうみょう koumyou	ingenious, skillful, clever, deft	Study
809	差し掛かる	さしかかる sashikakaru	to come near (to), to approach	Study
810	差異	さい sai	difference, disparity, gap	Study
811	差額	さがく sagaku	balance, difference (in price, cost), margin	Study
812	巻	まき maki	roll (e.g. of cloth)	Study
813	市街	しがい shigai	urban areas, the streets, town, city	Study
814	布告	ふこく fukoku	edict, ordinance, proclamation	Study
815	布巾	ふきん fukin	dish towel, tea towel, dishcloth	Study
816	帯びる	おびる obiru	to wear (a sword, decoration, etc.), to carry, to bear	Study
817	帰京	ききょう kikyou	returning (home) to Tokyo, returning to the capital	Study
818	帳	とばり tobari	curtain, hanging, bunting	Study
819	干し	ほし hoshi	drying, dried	Study
820	干し物	ほしもの hoshimono	things dried in the sun (esp. clothes, dyed cloth, etc.)	Study
821	干渉	かんしょう kanshou	interference, intervention, meddling	Study
822	平たい	ひらたい hiratai	flat, even, level	Study
823	平常	へいじょう heijou	normal, usual, ordinary, everyday	Study
824	平方	へいほう heihou	square (e.g. metre)	Study
825	平行	へいこう heikou	parallelism, running parallel (to, with)	Study
826	年号	ねんごう nengou	name of an imperial era (e.g. Heisei, Shōwa), Japanese era name	Study
827	年生	ねんせい nensei	nth-year student, nth-year pupil	Study
828	年輪	ねんりん nenrin	annual tree ring, growth ring	Study
829	年鑑	ねんかん nenkan	yearbook, almanac, annual	Study
830	年長	ねんちょう nenchou	senior, older	Study
831	年頃	としごろ toshigoro	approximate age, apparent age	Study
832	幹	みき miki	(tree) trunk, (arrow) shaft, (tool) handle, backbone, base	Study
833	幹線	かんせん kansen	main line, trunk line	Study
834	幹部	かんぶ kanbu	management, (executive) staff, leaders, leadership, top brass, upper echelons	Study
835	幽霊	ゆうれい yuurei	ghost, specter, spectre, apparition, phantom	Study
836	幾多	いくた ikuta	many, numerous	Study
837	庁	ちょう chou	government office, agency, board	Study
838	広まる	ひろまる hiromaru	to spread, to be propagated	Study
839	度胸	どきょう dokyou	courage, bravery, nerve	Study
840	座標	ざひょう zahyou	coordinate, coordinates	Study
841	座談会	ざだんかい zadankai	symposium, round-table discussion	Study
842	庶務	しょむ shomu	general affairs	Study
843	庶民	しょみん shomin	common people, ordinary people, masses	Study
844	廃れる	すたれる sutareru	to go out of use, to become obsolete, to die out, to go out of fashion, to go out of style	Study
845	廃棄	はいき haiki	disposal, abandonment, scrapping, discarding, abolition	Study
846	延いては	ひいては hiiteha	by extension, in turn, by the same token, in addition, as well, consequently	Study
847	延べ	のべ nobe	futures	Study
848	建前	たてまえ tatemae	face, official stance, public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts)	Study
849	弁償	べんしょう benshou	compensation, indemnification, reparation, restitution, recompense	Study
850	弁明	べんめい benmei	explanation, excuse	Study

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