straight, not bent

直ぐ: immediately, right away, soon / 直ぐ: quick to / 直ぐ: right next to, right close by

(obsolete) 過ぐ: classical form of modern 過ぎる (sugiru, “to go through, to go past; to exceed”)

(obsolete) 挿ぐ: classical form of modern 挿げる (sugeru, “to connect or affix one thing to another, especially by passing something through something else”)

直ぐに: immediately

to hear, to listen / to obey / to ask a question / to smell, sniff

to think, to deem / 思う: (と〜) to think that / to long for, to yearn for

carefully deliberating

to deliberate carefully

once (in the indeterminate past)