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(noun, Greek mythology) protective mantle of Zeus given to Athena

(noun) a minute, usually microscopic organism

(noun) an incidental right (as a right-of-way) attached to a principal property right and passing in possession with it / (noun) a subordinate part or adjunct / (noun) accessory objects; apparatus

(adjective) of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen; pastoral / (adjective) relating to or typical of rural life / (adjective) idyllic

A tenant farmer or farm worker in Latin America

(noun) a building or chamber in which bodies or bones are deposited

(noun) a staff for holding the flax, tow, or wool in spinning OR relating to women

(noun) the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings; exuberance

calmness and composure, especially in a difficult situation

(verb) to destroy completely; wipe out / (verb) to pull up by the root / (verb) to cut out by surgery

(noun) the formation of blood or of blood cells in the living body

(noun) a complete or impressive collection of things; (historically) a complete set of arms or suit of armor

(noun) a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as money) / (noun) severe poverty / (noun) extreme and often niggardly frugality

(noun) a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as money) / (noun) severe poverty / (noun) extreme and often niggardly frugality

(noun) deceitfulness; untrustworthiness

(verb) to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of; appease

of, relating to, or occurring during childbirth

(verb) to break apart or in two; separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space / (verb) to become parted, disunited, or severed

(noun) excessive or ostentatious pride especially in one's achievements / (noun) vain display or show; vanity

a still life that contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent; most notable during the 16th/17th centuries in Flanders and the Netherlands