1. [n] (medicine) An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction.

1. [n] An expenditure of physical or mental effort.

1. [n] The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.

1. [v] (transitive, intransitive) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join.

1. [n] A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.

1. [n] (of a polity) The state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations.

relating to or using force or threats.

1. [v] (transitive) To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.

1. [n] government by a singular authority, either a single person or tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.

1. [n] The extent or measure of how wide something is.

1. [n] The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it

1. [adj] Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.

1. [n] A union or alliance of states or political organizations.

1. [n] The act of mixing.

an area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.

1. [adj] Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

1. [adj] (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.

1. [adv] (formal, also law) Up to this or that time.

maintain (something) in its original or existing state.

1. [n] A range of values or locations.

a large commercial organization owned or controlled by one person or group.

1. [v] (transitive) To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.

"1. [n] The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society

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a person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others.

1. [adj] (philosophy) conditional; contingent upon some hypothesis/antecedent