What is the "one type" being "wiped away" in this sentence? As part of a larger block of text, my JLPT textbook has this sentence: > {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} I'm specifically confused about the `{}{}{}` part. First, I think the `` in `` is from `{}`, as in, "to wipe away" or "to eliminate". So, it's something like "when facing words we eliminate one type"...? For the whole sentence, it comes across to me as something like, "All of us, when facing words it's easy to eliminate one type with contempt, maybe you could say we generally tend to look at them lightly." Which doesn't really add up to something sensible. I went with "contempt" for `{}`, though other definitions are "disdain" or "make light of", but no matter how I translate it, I can't see how it fits. One type of what? One type of words? Why would we wipe them away? What exactly does this sentence mean?

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The is (to wipe) + (difficult to~). So when we say we are talking about that being something that it is difficult to wipe away. Next, do not think of as contempt. The words immediately following are rephrasing it. is just to treat something with little importance, or in other words, . I do not believe (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) that has any sort of enmity or ill will in it that you might find with a word like "contempt."

So would be a sort of undervaluing or disregard of words that is difficult to "wipe away," if we use the metaphor of the original. Ultimately the passage this is from is probably making a point about the importance of words.