Vocabulary

daimyo in the Warring States period

turbulent (troubled) times; turbulent war period

remedial measure; settlement (of matters); dealing with the aftermath

remedial measure; measure to settle matters satisfactorily

self-contradiction; self-inconsistency

remote antiquity; ancient times; the remote past

permanence; immortality; eternity

self-contradiction; self-inconsistency

player's career; one's career in sport; one's career as an athlete

an infinite variety; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging

overstepping one's powers (competence, authority); abuse of one's legal authority; acting ultra vires

sultry novel; suggestive story

single-mindedly; wholeheartedly; with one's heart and soul

unprecedented; unheard-of; never propounded (discovered, invented) by anyone before

putting up a good fight against some odds

an endless variety of forms; multifariousness

prevalence of arbitrariness; rife with arbitrary decisions (acting on one's own authority)

precursor; premonitory phenomena; telltale signs; advance warnings

a bright (rosy) future awaiting one; having the world before one

propaganda work; propaganda efforts (maneuvers)

propaganda campaign (offensive); advertising (promotional) offensive

(adopting) a publicity (an advertising) policy; a propaganda line

promising (rosy, bright) future; offering promising prospects

having a very promising future; offering promising prospects

without intermission for many years; with constancy of purpose for many years; in the same old rut for years on end

pacification work (activity)

sense of being the chosen people

all-out confrontation; total confrontation

total (full-scale) withdrawal; complete pullout (pullback)

total denial; complete denial; denying totally (flatly, outright)

ignorance outside of one's own field; overspecialization; one-trick pony

sagging market

a country being in a state of universal peace; the world being peaceful and uneventful

struggle for supremacy between evenly-matched armies (teams)

using all of one's strength (to); giving (it) everything one has got; going full-out

good-neighbor diplomacy; a good-neighbor policy

return to the line (of battle); coming back to the game; comeback

early (prompt) settlement; swift resolution; speedy solution

starting an enterprise and (or) carrying it to final success

education in art and design; education in drawing and manual arts