My words

的外れ

まとはずれ

out of focus off the point miss the mark

歯切れの悪い

はぎれのわるい

inarticulate not making oneself quite clear slurring ones words evasive

葬式

そうしき

funeral

ちぐはぐ

mismatched odd irregular

住み着く

すみつく

to settle (in a place) to settle down

慣習

かんしゅう

usual (historical) custom

聖なる

せいなる

holy sacred

由緒

ゆいしょ

history pedigree lineage

心が洗う

Kokoro ga arau

cleanses the heart

敬う

うやまう

to show respect to honour to honor

宿る

やどる

to dwell to live to remain to stay at to take shelter at to stop at to lodge at to be pregnant to be part of a constellation to be a parasite (bugs plants etc)

けげん

puzzling

こまごま

in detail

根掘り葉掘り

ねほりはほり

thoroughly persistently throughandthrough

語学

ごがく

language study

たどたどしい

difficult

期待

きたい

expectation anticipation hope

もどかしい

irritating irritated frustrating vexing (feeling things are) not quick enough (feeling) too slowgoing (feeling) impatient tantalizing tantalising

似る

にる

to resemble to look like to take after to be similar (in status condition etc) to be close to be alike to be like

潜む

ひそむ

to lurk to lie dormant to be hidden to be concealed to be stashed

普遍的

ふへんてき

universal omnipresent ubiquitous

ついでに

while doing A sekalian ngerjain B incidentally

それと無く

それとなく

indirectly obliquely

細々

こまごま

minutely in detail with particular attention

怪訝

けげん

dubious puzzled suspicious

ずかずか

making rude entrance

近づく

ちかづく ちかずく

to approach, to draw near, to get close to get acquainted with, to get closer to, to get to know

突きつける

Tsukitsukeru

confront

許す

ゆるす

to permit, to allow, to approve, to tolerate to exempt (from fine), to excuse (from), to pardon, to forgive, to release, to let off to confide in to give up, to yield

善くも

よくも

How dare ..., How could ...