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A shared cultural identity, often including ancestry, language, and traditions, that distinguishes one group of people from another.
The tendency to judge other cultures using the standards and values of one's own culture, often assuming one's own is superior.
The study and detailed description of a particular culture or community, usually based on direct observation.
An appeal to credibility or character used to persuade an audience that a speaker or writer can be trusted.
The study of the origin and history of words.
The discredited idea and historical practice of trying to improve a human population by controlling who is allowed to have children.
An organism whose cells contain a nucleus enclosed within a membrane.
A cell that contains a nucleus and other membrane-bound structures, found in animals, plants, fungi and protists.
A speech or piece of writing that praises someone, especially one who has recently died.
A mild or indirect word or phrase used in place of one considered too harsh or blunt.
A pleasant, harmonious sound, especially in speech or music.
An intense feeling of happiness and excitement, often overwhelming.
A continent made up of many countries, including France, Germany, and Italy.
To carefully judge the value, quality, or importance of something.
To change from a liquid into a vapor or gas, usually because of heat.
The process by which a liquid slowly turns into a gas, usually because of heat.
Smooth and level, or, in mathematics, a number that can be divided evenly by two.
The part of the day between afternoon and night, when the sky gets dark.
Something that happens, especially something planned or important.
After some time, especially after delays or difficulties.
At any time.
A tree or shrub that keeps its green leaves throughout the year.
Used to refer to each member of a group, without exception.
Every person; all people in a group.
Happening or used every day; ordinary.
Every person; all people in a group.
Every single thing, with nothing left out.
In, at, or to every place.
Facts, objects, or signs that show whether something is true or that support a belief.
Based on solid research and data rather than on tradition, opinion, or guesswork.
Deeply immoral and wicked.
To bring a feeling, memory, or image to mind.
The gradual process by which living things change over many generations.
Relating to gradual development or change over time, especially in biology.
The branch of biology that studies how species change over time through natural selection and other processes.
To develop gradually over time, often becoming more complex or better suited to something.
To make a problem or bad situation worse.
Completely correct or precise, with no errors or differences.
Demanding great care, precision, or effort.
In a precise and accurate way, with no difference at all.
A formal test of a person's knowledge or skill in a subject.
A formal test of knowledge or skill, or a careful inspection of something.
To look at or inspect something closely and carefully.
A single thing that shows what something else is like, used to explain or support a point.
To dig into the ground to find and carefully remove buried objects, especially in archaeology.
To go beyond a particular amount, limit, or expectation.
The quality of being extremely good at something.
Extremely good, of the highest quality.