Vocabulary

exceeding what one had heard; beyond one's expectations

prying tool used in interior decoration

to have secret communications (with); to conspire (with)

very fond of; more fond of than eating; so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without; more important than three meals a day

to tide over a difficult situation; to use a stopgap measure in a crisis

temaribana; Japanese snowball (Viburnum plicatum)

central government agencies; central bureaucracy

crankshaft

notes; comments; annotations

submarine rocket; SUBROC

demarcation

demarcation

oil tight (seal, joint, etc.)

techno-

father

thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee

Russian person

Easter egg

being lost for words

(living) from hand to mouth; living on the fringe of subsistence

missing important things here and there; full of gaps; as if the teeth of a comb were missing

to say the same thing over and over again; to talk until one is blue in the face

to arrange beforehand to tell the same story; to get the stories straight

foolish; nonsensical; absurd; ridiculous; trifling

the height of folly; sheer stupidity

the clouds look menacing

stupid; meaningless; worthless; pointless; boring

sailing boat; sailboat

Jew's mallow; Nalta jute; Tussa jute

humbly presenting something; reverently offering

mutual assured destruction; mutually assured destruction; MAD

small arms; light weapons

United Nations Security Council Resolution

nuclear-weapon state

non-nuclear-weapon state

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; NPT

unilateralism

multilateralism

rogue nation; rogue state

failed state