Reading DN Angel since most of the volumes are free right now 
平々凡々 へいへいぼんぼん very ordinary; mediocre; all-too-common; quite commonplace
決め手 きめて decider; person who decides
パーペキ perfect
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一掃セール - clearance sale
気球 - balloon
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傷つける - to hurt (someone), to chip (something)
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大好物 - favourite food
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鯉口を切る
こいくちをきる
- cut the carp’s mouth (lit.), the action of breaking the sheath seal on a katana when drawing the blade. The scabbard mouth is the 鯉口.
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水くさい reserved, distant, not frank
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心肺停止 しんぱいていし - cardiac arrest (used in news reports to indicate unconfirmed deaths)
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First heard it in KonoFan, then I think in an anime or something like that.
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一か八か ( いちかばちか)
sink or swim
I wonder where that comes from (apparently it’s unkown 一か八か - Wiktionary).
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残響 - reverberation, echo
鼓膜 - eardrum
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Learned some new-to-me Kansai dialect from a coworker
せなあかん and if you want to get more dialect-y the Wakayama-ben version しやなあかん. Dialect form of しなければいけない
例）
今夜宿題せなあかん。
I have to do my homework tonight.
明日車を掃除しやなあかん。
I have to clean my car tomorrow.
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負け惜しみ - sore loser
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直射日光 - direct sunlight (duh!) 
拡声器 - megaphone
ぱくつい - stolen tweet
ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ
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柿の種
Literally “kaki seeds”, but it actually refers to the typical small, banana-shaped crackers:
I had learned the kanji for kaki 柿 a while ago, and yesterday I saw it on a bag of crackers 
Always nice when you first see something in the real world. It seems that the actual seeds of a kaki don’t really have this shape, though.
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Did you try them? They’re delicious imo
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Yeah 
I ate a few and love them, too. But my favorite are the round ones with a nut inside, and the ones with 海苔 on them.
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These snacks are super addictive actually 
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