List: JLPT Level N2 words

popular  JLPT N2  noun  noun (generic) 

• matter of taste

popular  ateji  JLPT N2  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix) 

• dwelling, house, residence, address
• living, life

popular  search-only kana form  JLPT N2  い adjective  adjective (generic) 

• impudent, shameless, brazen, forward, audacious, cheeky

popular  ateji  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N2  usually written using kana alone  adverb  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic) 

• with trouble, at great pains
• rare, valuable, precious, long-awaited
• kind, generous
• specially, especially, expressly

popular  ateji  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N2  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

• abacus, soroban
• calculation (esp. of profit and loss), reckoning

popular  JLPT N2  godan verb  godan verb (archaic)  verb (generic)  transitive verb  Kansai-ben  Internet slang  intransitive verb 

• to cook (grains, e.g. rice)
• to boil, to simmer, to stew, to seethe
• to get angry, to snap

popular  JLPT N2  godan verb  godan verb (archaic)  verb (generic)  transitive verb 

• to burn, to kindle, to light (a fire), to make (a fire)
• to heat (a bath), to light (a stove), to stoke (a boiler)
• to use (a camera flash)

popular  JLPT N2  usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic) 

• riddle, puzzle, enigma

popular  JLPT N2  usually written using kana alone  adverb 

• somehow or other, for some reason or another, without knowing why

popular  JLPT N2  godan verb  godan verb (archaic)  verb (generic)  intransitive verb 

• to be fragrant, to smell (good)
• to stink, to smell (bad)
• to glow, to be bright
• to smack of, to show hints of