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- 2. They often hired samurai to guard their land, and they paid the samurai in land or food as relatively few could afford to pay samurai in money.
- 4. - noun traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living
- 5. - verb command against
- 6. - verb continue to live; endure or last; continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); support oneself; live longer than
- 9. - noun the act of forming something; United States 44-gun frigate that was one of the first three naval ships built by the United States; it won brilliant victories over British frigates during the War of 1812 and is without doubt the most famous ship in the history of the United States Navy; it has been rebuilt and is anchored in the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston; the way in which someone or something is composed; law determining the fundamental political principles of a government
- 12. - noun a large fleet
- 16. - noun a basic truth or law or assumption; a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system; a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct; a rule or standard especially of good behavior; rule of personal conduct; (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)
- 18. He is renowned for modernizing the government administration and for promoting Buddhism in Japan.
- 19. - noun a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68
- 20. - verb indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; to state or express briefly; suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine; give evidence of; be a signal for or a symptom of
- 23. - noun someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch; members of a governing board
- 24. - noun one the Shinto deities (including mythological beings, spirits of distinguished men, forces of nature)
- 26. was a Japanese samurai and daimyo (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.
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- 1. was a Japanese daimyo and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku period. He is regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan.
- 3. - noun a group of many islands in a large body of water
- 7. - noun feudal Japanese military aristocracy; a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy
- 8. was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1192 until 1199.
- 10. - noun a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
- 11. - verb collect or gather; get or gather together
- 13. - adj. used by Northerners of Confederate soldiers; noun `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms; a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions); someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action; verb take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance; break with established customs
- 14. - noun an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); an incompatibility of dates or events; opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; a disagreement or argument about something important; verb go against, as of rules and laws; be in conflict
- 15. - noun the main landmass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula
- 17. - noun the property of being close together; a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit; the region close around a person or thing
- 21. - noun the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war
- 22. was the founder and first shÅgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
- 25. - noun change toward something smaller or lower; a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; a downward slope or bend; a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current; verb grow smaller; inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"; go down in value; go down; grow worse; show unwillingness towards; refuse to accept