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noun • the waging of armed conflict against an enemy • a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply • an active struggle between competing entities • a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious verb • make or wage war | ||||||||
| 26% | 15 | Finding a logical or sensible reason for something that was initially done without reason | ||||||
noun • (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening • the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason • (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation • the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency • systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | ||||||||
| 26% | 13 | Characteristic that evolves for one reason but later provides an advantage for another reason | ||||||
noun • An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function | ||||||||
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