lyricist

(music) performer, player

expert, skillful man

coward

beginner (someone who has recently begun learning something new) / (Internet slang) noob

candidate (a person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job)

producer, manufacturer

assassin

Kyūjitai form of 学者: scholar

Kyūjitai form of 読者 (“reader”)