How do I delete stuff as I'm going through the review queue? There are some words that have gotten into my queue that I've decided not to learn , but they keep coming up

Click the magnifying glass to bring up the word popup, then hit the red "minus" buttons on all the parts you don't want. A better "delete" or "remove" button there will be good, as this is non-obvious enough to be asked frequently

where is the magnifying glass?

okay, I found the magnifying glass, and I clicked it and clicked on the minus signs of the characters I want to get rid of, but they're not going away. And when I repeat the process, I see that the minus signs are still there on the characters I'm trying to delete

do you mean that I should click on the minus signs that are next to "writing" and "pinyin" ? Or all of the minus signs that I see, if I just want to get rid of all of the characters in that particular word?

Writing and pinyin, so you don't see that word again.

Nudge on the remove button for this, I had to look up the forums to see how to do this :)

We will be trying to fit one in there as we redesign the confusing table in that popup.