Answer to the Quiz, January 8

d. 望み薄 (nozomiusu: hope + thin, flimsy) means “faint hopes, dim prospects.”

Halpern says -薄 (-usu) can be a suffix meaning “scarcity (of), shortage (of).” So perhaps the proper breakdown of 望み薄 is hope + shortage.

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