provisional; temporary; tentative; interim
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
cabinet; housing (for equipment)
oblong; vertical writing style (e.g. on envelopes); portrait orientation
consists of; comprises; is made up of
unique; original; individual; unusual
advanced; pioneering; cutting-edge
to shade an account; to add something extra
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
to (see and) choose; to select; to diagnose (as); to judge; to estimate; to liken (to)
sketching; pointillism; stippling
to delineate; to draw; to express; to imagine
processing speed; handling speed
five-toed (socks); top 5 (counting with fingers)
pioneer; trailblazer; leader; groundbreaker; pathfinder; forerunner
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
self-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MIT
assistant; associate; duplicate; copy; adverb
(university) president; chancellor; principal; provost
command; direction; supervision; conducting (an orchestra, choir, etc.)
bush; thicket; shrub; copse
large number; innumerable; great many; immense; vast; abundant
to find out; to discover; to locate
things to do; must-do items; one's duty; what is required
to pen; to write; to draw
to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander
meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; in contrast
grace; favor; favour; blessing; benefit
bitter (taste); sour (expression, look); bitter; bitter (e.g. experience); painful
people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos
accumulation; accumulate; store
being able to do as one pleases; doing at will; pothook
fight; dispute; feud; competition; contest; rivalry
evolution; evolution; becoming more advanced; progress
to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve
to pile up; to form into a (huge) pile
to disperse; to chase away; to pursue relentlessly; to be in hot pursuit
field of vision; view; one's outlook (e.g. on life); one's horizons
to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of
to suspend between two points; to build (a bridge, etc.); to put up on something (e.g. legs up on table)