N2 · 40 words
Energy and resources
Power stations, fuels, mining and the effort to use less.
Most words for producing electricity are built the same way: a source followed by 発電 — 火力発電, 水力発電, 風力発電, 太陽光発電. Japanese also likes to shorten long compounds, so a nuclear power station is 原発 and saving energy is 省エネ; these short forms are what you will actually hear and read. In daily speech electricity is 電気; 電力 is electricity as a supply that is generated, sold and used up.
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This list belongs to Technology, science and energy — eight lists and 321 words that can also be practised as a whole.
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Multiple choice and gaps, drawn from exactly these 40 words. Whatever you get wrong comes back tomorrow.