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JLPT Level 1 Vocab (73/147)

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Here is our unofficial vocab list for level 1 of the JLPT. It also includes the vocab that appeared on levels 2, 3 and 4. You can download an excel version of this data by clicking on the download button below. You may also add them to your vocab list by clicking the checkbox next to them and clicking on the "Add to Vocab List" button at the bottom of the page.

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せんよう exclusive use; personal use
せんりょう occupation; capture; possession; have a room to oneself
せんりょく war potential
せんろ line; track; roadbed
ぜいかん customs house
ぜいきん tax; duty
ぜいたく luxury; extravagance
ぜいむしょ tax office
ぜせい correction; revision
ぜったい absolute; unconditional; absoluteness
ぜっぱん out of print
ぜつぼう despair; hopelessness
ぜつめつ destruction; extinction
ぜひ certainly; without fail
ぜひとも とも by all means (with sense of not taking "no" for an answer)
ぜん (small) table; tray; meal
ぜん Zen (Buddhism)
ぜん good; goodness; right; virtue
ぜん all; whole; entire; complete; overall; pan
ぜんいん all members (unanimity); all hands; the whole crew
ぜんかい complete recovery of health
ぜんこく country-wide; nation-wide; whole country; national
ぜんご around; throughout; front and back; before and behind; before and after; about that (time); longitudinal; context; nearly; approximately
ぜんしゃ the former
ぜんしゅう complete works
ぜんしん the whole body; full-length (portrait)
ぜんしん advance; drive; progress
ぜんせい height of prosperity
ぜんぜん wholly; entirely; completely; not at all (neg. verb)
ぜんたい whole; entirety; whatever (is the matter)
ぜんてい preamble; premise; reason; prerequisite
ぜんと future prospects; outlook; the journey ahead
ぜんぱん (the) whole; universal; wholly; general
ぜんぶ all; entire; whole; altogether
ぜんめつ annihilation
ぜんりょう goodness; excellence; virtue
ぜんりょく all one's power; whole energy
ぜんれい precedent
そう monk; priest
そう 沿 to run along; to follow
そう to accompany; to become married; to comply with
そう whole; all; general; gross
そうい difference; discrepancy; variation
そうおう suitability; fitness
そうおん noise
そうかい general meeting
そうかん launching (e.g. newspaper); first issue
そうきん remittance; sending money
そうこ storehouse; warehouse; godown
そうこう running a wheeled vehicle (e.g. car); traveling