n. offshoot (a) a branch; a derivative (b) hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation (c) musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments (d) person who is specially cared for and favored by another usually older person
n. precedence (a) a mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing (b) a disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily (c) priority in place, time or rank (d) a principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide
n. sentience (a) the division of society on artificial grounds (b) capacity for sensation or sense-perception (c) coercion (d) the world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement
n. ordeal (a) anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning (b) anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc (c) one of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia (d) sleeplessness
n. profiteer (a) candy or pastry; pastry shop; bake shop (b) person who benefits (c) the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body (d) a movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion |
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n. microscopy (a) the art of examining objects with the microscope (b) unblushing impudence (c) the act of reading carefully or thoughtfully (d) severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief
n. darwinism (a) the doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms (b) the attainment of superior skill (c) something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen or done instead of something else (d) an office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
n. trammel (a) a unit of electrical energy (b) authoritative act of prohibition (c) a wrong or improper act (d) an impediment
v. ravage (a) to reproduce (b) to acquire a distinct and separate character (c) to lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring or other destructive methods (d) to move faster than
n. bureaucracy (a) access; act of accessing (b) government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business (c) excess (d) a fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer |
n. offshoot (a) a branch; a derivative n. precedence (c) priority in place, time or rank n. sentience (b) capacity for sensation or sense-perception n. ordeal (b) anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc n. profiteer (b) person who benefits n. microscopy (a) the art of examining objects with the microscope n. darwinism (a) the doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms n. trammel (d) an impediment v. ravage (c) to lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring or other destructive methods n. bureaucracy (b) government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business
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