- こっちの台詞(こっちのせりふ)- those are my words 
- 制度(せいど)-precision; accuracy 
- 改良型(かいりょうがた)-improvement; variant (of a pathogen) 
- パネェ - a lot; to a great extent 
- ほっつき歩く(ほっつきあるく)- to loiter around; to wander about 
- 暇をつぶす - kill time/waste time 
- ひたすら - nothing but; earnest; determined; the only thing needed 
- おつまみ - snacks to go with alcohol 
- 納得(なっとく)- understanding 
- メじゃない- it doesn't matter 
- 賛否両論(さんぴりょうろん)- pros and cons 
- 叱咤激励(しったげきれい) - giving a loud pep talk; encouraging somebody in a loud voice 
- 音漏れ(おともれ)- sound leaking out of headphones; sound leakage 
- 洋楽(ようがく)- western music 
- 潔い(いさぎよい)- manly, sportsmanlike, gracious, gallant, resolute, brave, pure, upright, blameless, unsullied 
- アンニュイ - boredom, listlessness, languor 
- 庶民的(しょみんてき)- popular, folk, plebeian, working class 
- セン - stopper, bottle cap, ending (of a comic) 
- 追求(ついきゅう)- pursuing a goal, pursuit, search, to seek 
- 表情(ひょうじょう)- facial expression 
- 弄る(いじる)- to tamper with 
- 求人広告(きゅうじんこうこく)- help wanted advertisements 
- 立体感(りったいかん)- feeling of solidity, three dimensionality, drawing highlights 
- 仕種(しぐさ)- action; gesture 
- 圧勝(あっしょう)- overall victory 
- 蛇足(だそく)-redundancy 
- ぎゃふんと言う(ぎゃふんという)-argued into silence 
- 由来(ゆらい)- origin; source; reason; destiny 
- 単一民族(たんいつみんぞく)- racially homogenous; monoracial 
- 抜け出す(ぬけだす)- to slip out; to sneak away; to break out (of a loop) 
- 金銭(きんせん)- heartstrings 
- 金銭に触れる(きんせんにさわれる)- to pull at heartstrings 
- 耳にする/耳にされる - to hear by chance 
- 眼中にない(がんちゅうにない)- take no notice of; disregarding; thinking nothing of; completely ignoring; being out of consideration; effectively not existing as an option 
- 解釈(かいしゃく)- explanation; interpretation 
- 深々(ふかぶか)- very deeply 
- むしろ - rather 
- 乏しい(とぼしい)- meager; poor; destitute 
- 偏見(へんけん)- narrow view 
- 手っ取り早い(てっとりばやい)- quick and easy; finishing up in a hurry 
- 落ちこぼれ(おちこぼれ)- leftovers; odds and ends; dunce who can't keep up in school; pickings 
- 白豚(しろぶた)- white pig 
- 言葉を交わす(ことばをかわす)- to exchange words 
- ごちゃごちゃ - to get jumbled up; mix up; complaining about various things 
- 掘り返す(ほりかえす)-to dig up 
- 醜い(みにくい)- unattractive 
- 的外れ(まとはずれ)- out of focus; off the mark 
- 戯言(たわごと)- nonsense; bullshit; silly joke 
         mar 8 2013 ∞
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