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5. a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
6. roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of.
8. easily agitated or alarmed; tending to be anxious; highly strung.
9. (of one or more things) available as another possibility.
11. suitcases or other bags in which to pack personal belongings for traveling.
12. a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

1. required by law or rules; compulsory.
2. any of the foods or substances that are combined to make a particular dish.
3. the internal organ in which the major part of the digestion of food occurs, being (in humans and many mammals) a pear-shaped enlargement of the alimentary canal linking the esophagus to the small intestine.
4. not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one.
7. suggesting something supernatural; uncanny.
8. failing to take proper care in doing something.
10. a person or thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon, or condition.