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Golden Age

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year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

1

border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region

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to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour

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with ... as a start; taking advantage of; inspired by

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left wing

1

member of an assembly; member of the Diet; member of parliament; member of Congress

1

rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power

1

hegemonism

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domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)

1

magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification

1

China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)

2

to betray one's country (to an enemy)

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economic cooperation

1

ten years; decade

1

vassal state; vassal nation; dependency

1

to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)

1

big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)

1

regulation; (traffic) policing; control; restriction

1

official; governmental; public (use, matter, forum, etc.); common; being public knowledge; being out in the open

1

work (film, book); production; creation; turning (something) out

1

praise; glorification; extolment

1

to manage; to control; to supervise; to crack down on; to keep under strict control; to enforce

1

forfeiture; seizure; confiscation; impounding

2

burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive

1

violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism

1

as good as dead; might as well be dead; more dead than alive

1

poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow

1

preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)

2

posterity; future life; life to come

1

to convey; to report; to transmit; to communicate; to tell; to impart

1

secret language; jargon; cant; argot; slang

1

first half

2

recovery; rescue; recapture

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wonderful; splendid; magnificent

1

one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume

3

love; affection; attachment; craving; agape; Ireland

1

passion; enthusiasm; zeal

1

modern times; the modern age; this day and age

1

narcotic; drug; dope

1

smuggling; bootlegging; illicit trade

1

uncontrollable; irrepressible

1

to be like-minded; to have the same goal

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instinct

2

young girl; lass; adolescent female

1

display and sale of new products

2

normally; habitually

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to talk together

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old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

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subject; theme

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