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playoff (noun)

    A final game in a series needed to break a tie.
    A short series of games to select a league champion.

anthropocentric(adjective)

    Placing humans at the center of something, giving preference to humans above all other considerations.

uphold (verb)

    To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
    To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
    To support by approval or encouragement.

heir (noun)

    Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
    One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
    A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.

predecessor (noun)

    One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
    A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
        e.g.: The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.

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cling (noun)

    Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
    adherence; attachment; devotion

civic (adjective)

    Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.
        e.g.: Thousands of people came to the Civic Center to show off their civic pride.
    Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.
        e.g.: civic duty

commission (noun)

    A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
        e.g.: It was James Bond's commission to defeat the bad guys.
    An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
        e.g.: David received his commission after graduating from West Point.
    The thing to be done as agent for another.
        e.g.: I have three commissions for the city.

collision (noun)

    An instance of colliding.

confer (verb)

    To compare.
    To talk together, to consult, discuss; to deliberate.
    To bring together; to collect, gather.
    To grant as a possession; to bestow.
    To contribute; to conduce.

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