JLPT N1 Vocabulary List - Page 2

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
51	ぼやける	ぼやける boyakeru	to become dim, to become blurred	Study
52	ゆとり	ゆとり yutori	elbowroom, leeway, room, reserve, margin, allowance, latitude, time (to spare)	Study
53	一別	いちべつ ichibetsu	parting	Study
54	一同	いちどう ichidou	all present, all concerned, all of us	Study
55	一帯	いったい ittai	whole area, whole region	Study
56	一律	いちりつ ichiritsu	uniform, even, across-the-board, equal	Study
57	一心	いっしん isshin	one mind	Study
58	一息	ひといき hitoiki	one breath	Study
59	一挙に	いっきょに ikkyoni	at a stroke, with a single swoop	Study
60	一敗	いっぱい ippai	one defeat	Study
61	一概に	いちがいに ichigaini	unconditionally, as a rule	Study
62	一様	いちよう ichiyou	uniform, equal, even, the same, identical	Study
63	一気	いっき ikki	one breath	Study
64	一目	いちもく ichimoku	look, glance, glimpse	Study
65	一筋	ひとすじ hitosuji	one line, one stretch (e.g. of road), one strand (e.g. of hair), one beam (e.g. of light), one ray, one length (e.g. of rope)	Study
66	一連	いちれん ichiren	series, chain, sequence	Study
67	一部分	いちぶぶん ichibubun	one part, one portion, one section	Study
68	一重	ひとえ hitoe	one layer, single layer	Study
69	一頃	ひところ hitokoro	once, some time ago	Study
70	丁々	ちょうちょう chouchou	(sound of) hitting repeatedly, pummelling, clashing, clacking, clicking (e.g. of go stones)	Study
71	万能	ばんのう bannou	all-purpose, utility, universal	Study
72	丈	だけ dake	only, just, merely, simply, no more than, nothing but, alone	Study
73	三味線	しゃみせん shamisen	shamisen, samisen, three-stringed Japanese lute	Study
74	上演	じょうえん jouen	performance (of a play, opera, etc.), staging, presentation	Study
75	下吏	かり kari	lower official	Study
76	下地	したじ shitaji	groundwork, foundation	Study
77	下心	したごころ shitagokoro	secret intention, ulterior motive	Study
78	下火	したび shitabi	burning low, waning, declining	Study
79	下番	かばん kaban	going off duty	Study
80	下痢	げり geri	diarrhea, diarrhoea	Study
81	下調べ	したしらべ shitashirabe	preliminary investigation, preliminary inquiry	Study
82	不吉	ふきつ fukitsu	ominous, sinister, unlucky, inauspicious	Study
83	不在	ふざい fuzai	absence	Study
84	不審	ふしん fushin	doubt, suspicion, question, strangeness	Study
85	不当	ふとう futou	injustice, impropriety, unfair	Study
86	不意	ふい fui	sudden, abrupt, unexpected, unforeseen	Study
87	不憫	ふびん fubin	poor, pitiful, piteous, pitiable	Study
88	不振	ふしん fushin	dullness, slump, stagnation, inactivity, depression	Study
89	不景気	ふけいき fukeiki	economic slump, hard times, depression, recession	Study
90	不服	ふふく fufuku	dissatisfaction, discontent, disapproval, objection, complaint, protest, disagreement	Study
91	不況	ふきょう fukyou	(economic) depression, recession, slump	Study
92	不良	ふりょう furyou	bad, poor, inferior, defective	Study
93	不評	ふひょう fuhyou	bad reputation, poor reception, unpopularity, disrepute	Study
94	不順	ふじゅん fujun	irregular, unseasonable, changeable, unsettled, abnormal	Study
95	与党	よとう yotou	ruling party, government party, party in power, government	Study
96	且つ	かつ katsu	and, moreover, besides, as well as, and on top of that, at the same time	Study
97	世	よ yo	world, society, public	Study
98	世代	せだい sedai	generation, the world, the age	Study
99	世帯	せたい setai	household, home, family, housekeeping	Study
100	世論	よろん yoron	public opinion, popular voice, public sentiment, consensus	Study

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