飴と鞭 （あめとむち）carrot and stick policy.
補欠 （ほけつ）filling a vacancy, suplementary
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I am currently reading a book and found this cool word 
色とりどり (いろとりどり) multi-coloured
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ギラギラ - glitter, dazzle, glare
I’m sure the practical uses for this term will start pouring in any day now
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罪人 (つみびと), which means “Sinner”. Gotta thank Kamijo for teaching me this one through one of the most epic songs I’ve ever heard 
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無関係・むかんけい - unrelated
Na-adj, Noun
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恐るべし
おそるべし
Awesome, amazing
From a very excited Principal using a new product to clean the floors lol
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何気ない - casual, as in a casual conversation
預ける - which seems to be a wanikani word I’ll run into later, but only by the meaning “to deposit money” - the context I saw it in was more like “to entrust someone with something.”
Both learned from listening to old pop songs.
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茶碗 (ちゃわん) which interestingly means rice bowly, and not tea bowl
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Most recently, I learnt about a lot of trees and tree Kanji
柊 ひいらぎ
楠 クスノキ
榛の木 ハンノキ
椿 つばき
榛 ハシバミ
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Watching youtuber playing a game in japanese, I was trying to decompose and translate different parts of UI.
Therefore, 読み込み中 means “loading”.
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That’s not quite right. It does usually mean rice bowl (actually more generally any ceramic bowl) when used in a modern context, but it also means a cup/bowl for drinking tea during a tea ceremony, which was its original meaning.
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予め, あらかじめ yes, here on WaniKani, which means beforehand, previously. It’s weird because I don’t think I remember hearing it more than maybe once or twice in tv series or movies. I bet I’ll start hearing it everywhere after I guru it LOL. Happens the same when I learn a new word from my native language.
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熱心 (nesshin)! I just learned this from my lessons. It means passion!
Outside of wanikani, however, I recently learned the verb はまる, which means “to be addicted to/to be crazy about” (along with many other meanings, but that’s how I learned it), which came from watching Sword Art Online. X3
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背 (せ)
Means back/spine but can also be used when talking about a person’s height. I learned it talking to my language partner about how tall someone is. I really like this word for some reason!
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巻き糞
まきぐそ
explained to me as “shit like soft cream”
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Learned 終止符を打つ (can’t remember from where), but it means to put an end to something.
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弓を引くto draw a bow
in an article about usain bolt and there was the:
弓を引くポース
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栞 (しおり) bookmark
I find both the kanji and the word very cute.
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恋愛禁止, which is serious business.
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放浪生活 - “a vagabond life”. I actually learned 放浪癖 (ほうろうへき; ‘wanderlust’) from a JPod101 lesson, but afterwards I went to look up 放浪 and got 放浪生活.
I wonder why one of these kanji is level 59 on WK when it’s really not any harder than the other three, which you should know by level 11 (plus you should also know the radicals in 浪 by the end of level 11). I guess if the kanji were actually arranged by difficulty, the earlier levels would be inordinately long and the later levels would get shorter and shorter, so some displacement is inevitable just to keep things distributed.
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