I wore a hedgehog skirt today and my students taught me the word for hedgehog!
針鼠（はりねずみ）
Literally, needle mouse
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And similarly 引っ込み思案. Thats the one I’ve seen the most, but there may actually be a pretty big difference in nuance.
Well, 朴念仁 seems to be more for people who are dense if you know what I mean but the other is just for people who don’t interact much. Or at least that is the nuance difference I am getting here.
But then again someone could be dense because they don’t interact much.
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Most of the Onomatopoeic words have broad meanings and also tend to have both sound and mind meanings at once.
Was watching a video about some Japanese homophones and learned 厚い (thick). The two words presented with it (暑い、熱い) I already knew. 
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暗記 - あんき - memorization
Just saw this word and thought about the Anki software which I’m certain many language learners have heard about. Turns out the software is named after this word.
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取り憑かれる - To become possessed. Or less literally to be obsessed with, to the point of delusion.
@mathiasxx94 Well it certainly wasn’t 暗器
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すみません - excuse me
Okay so everyone knows this right, but what I didn’t know before today is that this word is the polite negative conjugation of 済む (すむ) - to finish ----> 済みません (すみません) - (it is) not finished. So this word could mean something like “this encounter is not finished” as in “I am now obligated for your kindness and mean to return a favor to you.”
@Syphus I’m very sorry, but I don’t get it.
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暗器 is also read あんき
So does 暗鬼.
Maybe the name of the software is related to the demons waiting in the dark for you to press “good” instead of “again”.
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As of recently, I’ve not been able to study Japanese as I would like to, so I’ve been saving this list for the past month. And sadly, it’s sorely lacking compared to what I’ve come across in a weekend or something.
夏場（なつば）summertime
散髪（さんぱつ）(having a) haircut; hair-cutting; hair-dressing
散髪屋（さんぱつや）barber; barber shop
厳冬（げんとう）severe winter
暖冬（だんとう）mild winter; warm winter
冷夏（れいか）cool summer; cold summer; cooler-than-normal summer
空梅雨（からつゆ）(unusually) dry rainy season
楽観的（らっかんてき）optimistic; hopeful
周波数（しゅうはすう）frequency (esp. of waveforms)
抑揚（よくよう）intonation; accent; modulation; inflectio
平坦（へいたん）even; flat; level
教授法（きょうじゅほう）teaching methodology; pedagogy
素足（すあし）bare feet
生足（なまあし）bare legs; bare feet; stockingless legs
螺子（ねじ）screw; key (of a clock, watch, etc.); spring (of a clock, watch, etc.)
麻痺（まひ）paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor
不織布（ふしょくふ）non-woven (fabric) (e.g. felts and such)
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いじり
My ime doesnt even let me use the kanji form of the いじ part of it. Must be pretty uncommon.
I just looked up the kanji and I feel like it fits into the category of kanji where its simple, but you rarely see it so it looks a bit strange. I dont know how to describe it…
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As “king on top of twenty” (in terms of WK radicals).
Yeah, すみません is, to translate it overly literally, a way of setting a matter has not yet been settled. But in context it expresses gratitude, apology, or a request for attention.
Though I also just recently made the connection between it and its dictionary form of 済む, which I encountered via Wanikani and other study materials at almost exactly the same time. I knew the literal meaning before, but not the base verb or that verb’s other uses.
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I like this mix
まぐれ - chance/pure luck
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Just learned 罪悪感 (ざいあくかん）= guilt; feelings of guilt
I heard it quite many times in conversations and incorrectly thought it was 最悪感、“the worst feeling ever” or something along those lines. I even used it last Sunday for the first time… however today I realized that this 最悪感 is not a word… 
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You mean 弄り? Yes, 弄 is extremely rare in Japanese.
Yep. Didnt feel like copying it off of jisho cuz im too lazy