brown-nosing, apple-polishing / a brown-noser, an apple-polisher

to aim / to have one's eye on something / to watch for opportunity / to seek

boss

Alternative form of 擦る

promotion

be promoted

sesame (either the plant or the seeds)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend