Using Capture2Text, I was able to identify 躊躇 in the photo that you posted. Maybe scan/photograph a few pages at a time and use Capture2Text to OCR unknown words?

You could always search up in Japanese difficult vocabulary or get it from JLPT level 1 word lists. It works well but I get where your coming from. It's really random, so you might not be able to learn it/see it often. I was able to understand/read that because I kept reviewing it via my SRS vocab deck for Anki. There isn't anything special about it though, add vocabulary you don't know until it gets to the point where only a few or nothing is bothering you.

When reading, just mark the word(s) you can't understand / read, and move on.
When studying, go back to the words and look them up, and do whatever you have to do to be able to understand them. Use Radical-based dictionaries, http://kakijun.main.jp/, rikai-sama, yahoo, Nintendo DS etc..
It's no magic formula, but it gets the job done.

jettyke Wrote:Basically my question with this would be, how should I deal with looking up the strange words that I don't know?( in this case) It's hard or almost impossible to look them up for me because they seem very unusual to me. And I don't wanna search for long like crazy for those strange kanji either. They are so small sized( font) that looking up by stroke count ( which in this case would be very time-consuming because of the big amount of strokes) would be difficult.

You can do it. Just squint and copy them into the IME/electronic dictionary (just the first one will do) then look the word up. Eventually you'll run into unknown ones less. Maybe if it's really small font it'll be impossible, but the picture you took seems fine.

There's no other way (躊躇 in kanji isn't that uncommon).

jettyke Wrote:I tried writing this first kanji by hand on Aedict on Android and it didn't come up even after 3 times. Maybe it's because I did it without a stylus, I dunno.

The Mazec handwriting recognition IME for Android detected 躊 for me before I'd even finished writing it with a stylus. With my finger I can't do it at all though.