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Hierarchy
A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
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Archetype
- -A very typical example of a certain person or thing.
- -An original that has been imitated.
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Omnipotent
- -(of a deity) Having unlimited power; able to do anything.
- - (n)God
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Panorama
- -An unbroken view of the whole region surrounding an observer.
- -A picture or photograph containing a wide view.
- -Syn: Wide view, landscape
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Panacea
- -A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases
- -Syn: Cure all, heal all.
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Pandemonium
-Wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar.
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Anarchy
- -A state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.
- -Absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual, regarded as a political ideal.
- -Syn: Chaos, misrule.
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-Apathy
- -Lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
- -Syn: Indifference, unconcern
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Hyperbole
- -Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
- -Syn: Exaggeration
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Hypothesis
- -A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.
- -A proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth.
- -Syn: assumption
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Amoral
- -Lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something.
- -Syn: immoral
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Omnivorous
- -(of an animal or person) Feeding on food of both plant and animal origin.
- -Taking in or using whatever is available: "an omnivorous reader
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Omniscient
-Knowing everything.
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Celestial
- -Positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy.
- -Belonging or relating to heaven.
- -Syn: heavenly, supernal, divine.
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Lateral
- -A side part of something, esp. a shoot or branch growing out from the side of a stem.
- -Syn: sideways, side, collateral
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