Vocabulary list: Ascendance of a Bookworm

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どくどく
Top 19200
gushingly; copiously; profusely; in a steady stream
1
パシリ
Top 30100
gofer; dogsbody; person who is made to do things or get things for someone else
1
gist; main point
1
to draw (conclusion); to deduce; to derive
5
writing ability
1
愚おろか
Top 2800
foolish; stupid; silly
69
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
4
稀まれ
Top 7400
rare; seldom
5
obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit
15
being unfamiliar with a locality; not knowing one's way around; (lit.) not knowing one's right hand from the left; being clueless
2
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
2
safety net
2
having good memory
1
to have one's faults exposed; to have one's secrets blown
6
absurd; nonsensical; preposterous
9
to be consistent; to be coherent
1
return (of something borrowed or entrusted); returning; giving back; repayment
58
skipping school or work (without a good reason); playing truant; playing hooky
1
cylindrical; tubular
5
together (of two people); both (of you, them, etc.)
12
to protrude; to stick out; to be forced out; to be pushed out; to go over (e.g. a budget); to go beyond
5
tips of one's hair; hair ends
2
to rub in (e.g. cream into the skin); to grind and mix (e.g. pepper into miso)
1
to be smeared; to be covered
2
to make a circle (of a motion, arrangement, etc.); to move (e.g. one's head) in a circle; to form (the shape of) a circle; to draw a circle
9
fearfully; nervously; timidly; gingerly
5
ぺら
Top 41100
(unfolded) thin sheet of paper; 200-character writing paper; paper money; note
3
to make a lovely picture; to be perfect for a picture; picture-perfect; picturesque
5
to be off the press
4
drawing and manual arts (school subject); arts and crafts
1
Lindera triloba (species of spicebush)
2
hard to see; indistinct; obscure; painful to look at
1
difficult to approach; inaccessible
2
whole passage; full text; whole sentence; full paragraph
2
copperplate engraving; etching
2
nitric acid
1
corrosive agent
1
to lose heart; to be discouraged; to be dejected; to be exhausted; to be tired out
4
evaluation meeting; postmortem session; review meeting
23
failure is the mother of success
2
to connect; to tie; to fasten; to transfer (phone call)
9
because
4
rather; sooner; preferably
5
to project; to protrude; to pop out (e.g. eyes); to jump out; to rush out
6
unskilled; incompetent; poor; bad
4
due to the nature of one's job; because of one's line of work
4
chisel; graver
4
lumping together; putting all together
5
to go back to the starting point
1
children; juvenile
2