AWL 6

2. to be a mark or sign of; indicate
3. to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield
5. to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check
7. to take upon oneself, as a task, performance, etc.; attempt
8. a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity
9. opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
11. something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
13. a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic

1. subject to limitations or conditions, as of space, time, circumstances, or the laws of nature
3. personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment
4. not aligned with or supporting any side or position in a controversy
6. to lie under or beneath; be situated under
10. of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
12. to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority