n. preoccupation tendency to adhere to the existing order of things the condition of being manifold or very various an act or exercise of will obsession; fixation; thought that is constantly on one's mind; prior tenure or possession
n. obesity an ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling the keeping of a thing within one's power or possession excessive fatness a trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation
n. pomposity a labyrinth the quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner that part of anything that is in excess of what is needed a return from death to life
n. excellency an authoritative direction the highest point, as of a mountain a mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing a title of honor bestowed upon various high officials
n. sarcasm cutting and reproachful language person who beholds or looks on plant-life in the aggregate a deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier
n. reminiscence transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring slander the calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience an assumed name
n. caucus person who tends to speculate knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world a private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates the branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man
n. kiloliter a measure of volume ardor or intensity of feeling a fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists a speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public
n. vestige a small flag a grotesque, ludicrous or fantastic action a visible trace, mark or impression, of something absent, lost or gone that which oppresses, injures or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong
n. leaflet a large decorative metal disk worn on a chain around the neck a sheet of paper on which information has been printed; flyer an aggressive display of boldness any starlike meteor or phenomenon
