居留守: pretending to be absent from home

退き: distant place, far away place / 祖忌: (Buddhism) death anniversary of a sect founder, or the memorial service thereof

車体: car body / 斜体: (printing) italic typeface

(chiefly dialectal and colloquial) Alternative form of せる (seru, “causative suffix”)

vinegar (condiment)

The hiragana syllable す (su). Its equivalent in katakana is ス (su). It is the thirteenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is さ行う段 (sa-gyō u-dan, “row sa, section u”).

nest, hive, den

(archaic) to do / (archaic) to cause, become

sandbank, sandbar

The hiragana syllable しゃ (sha). Its equivalent in katakana is シャ (sha).