Let's play Standard Shiritori! しりとりをしましょう！

Japanese
#1777

緊張 (きんちょう) = Nervous.

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#1778

歌 (うた) - Song

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#1779

台風（たいふう）typhoon

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#1780

運動家（うんどうか）Activist

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#1781

硬い言い方 かたいいいかた written expression and very onomonopoetic, if only kata were reversed.

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#1782

タヌキ racoon dog

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#1783

緊張 きんちょう tension/mental strain

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#1784

裏口「うらぐち」- Backdoor

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#1785

力 (ちから) - Strength/Power

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#1786

ランキング ranking

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#1787

軍艦島「ぐんかんじま」- Battleship Island

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#1788

魔法 (まほう) - Magic

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#1789

裏切り者（うらぎりもの）Traitor

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#1790

能力のうりょく （ability）

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#1791

A word was repeated, so we start from scratch:

しりとり！

First word: 恐竜 (きょうりゅう) = Dinosaur.

Let’s see how long we can go without mistakes :astonished::astonished:

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#1792

家 (うち) - One’s Home, マイホーム.

Also, I think we can use り or ゆ too for these words that keep appearing. The Cure Dolly site I found mentions we can shorten long vowels, but wasn’t sure.

https://learnjapaneseonline.info/tag/shiritori-rules/#:~:text=Long%20vowels%20can%20be%20either%20shortened%20or%20the%20last%20kana%20used

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#1793

I’m down to use that rule since having so many う words kinda sucks lol.

知識（ちしき）Knowledge

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#1794

距離 (きょり) - Distance

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#1795

理想郷（りそうきょう）world of ideals

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#1796

金魚 (きんぎょ) - Goldfish

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