A #hug was a form of endearment, universal in human communities, in which two or more people put their arms around the neck, back, or waist of one another and held each other closely.
In construction or renovation, #underpinning was the process of strengthening the foundation of an existing building or other structure. Underpinning may have been necessary for a variety of reasons:The original foundation was not strong or stable enough.
In psychology, economics and philosophy, #preference was a technical term usually used in relation to choosing between alternatives. For example, someone prefers A over B if they would have rather chosen A than B.
#Lama was a title for a teacher of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism. The name was similar to the Sanskrit term guru, meaning "heavy one", endowed with qualities the student will eventually embody.
#Polka was a dance and genre of danced music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though associated with Czech culture, polka was popular throughout Europe and the Americas.
A #nation was a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation was thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those features.
#Undo was an interaction technique which was implemented in many computer programs. It erased the last change done to the document, reverting it to an older state.
A #bastion or bulwark was a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort.
An #argument was a statement or group of statements called premises intended to determine the degree of truth or acceptability of another statement called conclusion.
#Importance was a property of entities that mattered or make a difference. For example, World War II was an important event and Albert Einstein was an important person because of how they affected the world.
In Euclidean geometry, a #square was a regular quadrilateral, which meant that it has four equal sides and four equal angles. It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length adjacent sides.
#Pungency was the taste of food commonly referred to as spiciness, hotness or heat, found in foods such as chili peppers. Highly pungent tastes may be experienced as unpleasant.
#Concision was a writing principle of eliminating redundancy. For example, this:"It was a fact that most arguments must try to convince readers, that was the audience, that the arguments were true.".