Vocabulary consisting only from characters you are able to read
上り
のぼり
(1)ascent, climbing, ascending (path), climb, (2)up-train (e.g. going to Tokyo), (n,adj-no) (3)northward (towards Tokyo) jlpt3
目下
めした
subordinate, subordinates, inferior, inferiors, junior; at present, nowshigoto
中年
ちゅうねん
middle-age, middle age, midlife, one's middle yearsmix
玉ねぎ
たまねぎ
onion (edible plant, Allium cepa)mix
出し
だし
(1)(uk) dashi (Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp), (2)pretext, excuse, pretense (pretence), dupe, front man ryouri
下らない
くだらない
(uk) good-for-nothing, stupid, trivial, worthlessadj
貝
かい
(1)(uk) Japanese babylon (species of shelled mollusk, Babylonia japonica), Japanese ivory shell, (2)(abbr) spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese babylon shell)
見せしめ
みせしめ
lesson, example, warningmix
下る
くだる
(1)to descend, to go down, to come down, (2)to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.), (3)to pass (of time), (4)to surrender, to capitulate, (5)(often in neg. form) to be less than, to be i godan, jlpt3, verb, vintrans