天狗 - It is the Yokai with a long nose, but can also mean snobbish.
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虫歯 tooth bug = cavity. So cute! And the sound too: むしば.
I don’t love cavities but I love that word now 
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ホルモン
cows’ or pigs’ offal (entrails) (Kansai-ben)
ホルモンやき【ホルモン焼き, ホルモン焼】
ほるもんやき【放物焼き】
noun
fried beef or pork offal (entrails) (usually written in kana) (no relation to “hormone”)
Backstory: Went out for yakiniku and my table ordered another helping of “hormon” which made me very confused.
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仇（かたき、can also be written as 敵) - While 敵 is just a normal enemy, someone in a war or a battle, 仇 is like someone you have a strong grudge or hatred for.
Also can be read as あだ which is more like vengeance / revenge or hatred
As such 仇討ち (あだうち) is more directly vengeance.
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正月太り （しょうがつぶとり) it refers to the weight you gain over New Year’s (which I find very interesting that there’s a specific word for that). Saw it in a tweet by akokitamura.
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里心。さとごころ homesick. Love it!!
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Not exactly the last word I learned, but certainly one that stuck with me. It was in one of the earlier volumes of Major 2nd.
野次馬 (やじうま) - curious onlooker
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Hey @emin
What’s the name of that particular NetfliX movie you were watching?
Thx!
勇者ヨシヒコ It is a Dragon Quest parody I think, never played it but that drop monster is there a lot.
Since I’ve always got words for this thread:
何卒 - なにとぞ it’s basically a 謙譲語 version of どうぞ
To put more than one, I didn’t just learn this word, but know it’s not on the site:
稽古 - けいこ, which is just practice or study, same as 練習 but it is mostly used for martial arts. I’ve seen it used for Piano and some other Japanese style stuff like Calligraphy, but for things like modern sports it sounds weird.
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I’ve seen this word used for theater rehearsals as well
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Yea, I feel like I see it used for more “traditional” heavy-on-the-practice type things, Whether they’re Japanese or not.
武術 and 芸事 are the only things explicitly mentioned in the definition.
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It’s interesting to learn more about these meanings; I’ve never taken the time to look the word up because I picked it up through conversation and text correspondence with friends.
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いつも通り (いつもどおり) - as always
This is very useful
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With some words it’s hard to get all the meanings. In conversation you’ll probably only hear 真剣 used in one way. But it does still have its meaning of “real sword” used in some cases. Same with 二番煎じ above, I only found it because I was looking for the literal way to say that.
たぬき寝入り - Pretending to be asleep
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投函 とうかん mailing, posting
Apparently 函 (meaning box) is archaic, but I saw it come up and thought it was a funny little kanji so, here it is.
From kitteclub twitter
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Time to take the syphus approach and post some here to hopefully aid my memory.
覗く - One of the chicks in my vn is into telescopes so I feel like imma see this a lot
引っ込み思案- best girl is an introvert. although theres another (terrible) heroine thats like super introverted.
寸前 - apparently common, but not on here until level 44. Might as well get it out of the way now.
頼む - Kinda disappointed in myself for not knowing the kanji for this yet, but hopefully posting here will help.
電話に出る- This is a rather archaic word only used back in the 11th century, but i’ll memorize it anyways.
様子- Another one I wish I already knew for how common it is, but I’m slacking.
目を離す- eh, yeah.
極秘 - eh, yeahhh. Makes sense.
also 苦笑(する) while I’m at it.
and 寄り道
Is there a limit to how much I can edit my post? Nah, heck it. Just gonna make this hella long.
考え込む- Jesus, is there an end to words that use 込
時間帯- owo
戻る- this has gone in and out of my short term memory. Should probably just add this to houhou…or nah
回る- also means to visit several places apparently. 面倒臭いな
飲食店- is there a difference with レストラン? Who knows.
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You’ll get there in 3 levels. I thought knowing たのむ and たよる already would make learning this sucker “free”, but all its onyomi vocabs are real back-breakers. >_<
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The most recent word I learned was 苦い. I hate exceptional readings… but I just learned this kanji, so it’s pretty new to me anyway.
地震速報。
Saw a lot of 地震速報で起きた on Twitter the other day and picked it up from there.