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2. any prolonged or persistent effort to overcome resistance.
3. an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc.
4. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord.
6. conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
8. political or social disturbance or upheaval; sedition; insurrection.
11. to surpass others or be superior in some respect or area; do extremely well:
13. Obsolete. to dispute; quarrel.
15. Archaic. to hold in respectful awe
16. a person belonging to a hostile army or nation.

1. Mathematics. in direct proportion.
5. a concluding section, commentary, etc., as of a book, treatise, or the like; closing statement.
7. barely; hardly; not quite:
9. light is so dim we can scarcely see.
10. Archaic. concerned with or controlling fate or destiny.
12. uncombined, as a chemical element.
14. the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.