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Nurture:

–verb (used with object)

1.	to feed and protect: to nurture one's offspring.

2.	to support and encourage, as during the period of training or development; foster: to nurture promising musicians.

3.	to bring up; train; educate.

–noun

4.	rearing, upbringing, training, education, or the like.

5.	development: the nurture of young artists.

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something that nourishes; nourishment; food. Journeys noun 1. a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert. 2. a distance, course, or area traveled or suitable for traveling:a desert journey. 3. a period of travel: a week's journey. 4. passage or progress from one stage to another: the journey to success. –verb (used without object) 5. to make a journey; travel. Sub-Culture –verb (used with object) 1. Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium. –noun 2. Bacteriology. a culture derived in this manner. 3. Sociology. a. the cultural values and behavioral patterns distinctive of a particular group in a society. b. a group having social, economic, ethnic, or other traits distinctive enough to distinguish it from others within the same culture or society. Work noun 1. exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil. 2. something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking: The students finished their work in class. 3. productive or operative activity. 4. employment, as in some form of industry, esp. as a means of earning one's livelihood: to look for work. 5. one's place of employment: Don't phone him at work. 6. materials, things, etc., on which one is working or is to work. 7. the result of exertion, labor, or activity; a deed or performance. 8. a product of exertion, labor, or activity: musical works. 9. an engineering structure, as a building or bridge. 10. a building, wall, trench, or the like, constructed or made as a means of fortification. 11. works, a. (used with a singular or plural verb) a place or establishment for manufacturing (often used in combination): ironworks. b. the working parts of a machine: the works of a watch. c. Theology. righteous deeds. 12. Physics. force times the distance through which it acts; specifically, the transference of energy equal to the product of the component of a force that acts in the direction of the motion of the point of application of the force and the distance through which the point of application moves. 13. the works, Informal. a. everything; all related items or matters: a hamburger with the works. b. harsh or cruel treatment: to give someone the works. –adjective 14. of, for, or concerning work: work clothes. 15. working (def. 18). –verb (used without object) 16. to do work; labor. 17. to be employed, esp. as a means of earning one's livelihood:He hasn't worked for six weeks. 18. to be in operation, as a machine. 19. to act or operate effectively: The pump will not work. The plan works. 20. to attain a specified condition, as by repeated movement:The nails worked loose. 21. to have an effect or influence, as on a person or on the mind or feelings of a person. 22. to move in agitation, as the features under strong emotion. 23. to make way with effort or under stress: The ship works to windward. 24. Nautical. to give slightly at the joints, as a vessel under strain at sea. 25. Machinery. to move improperly, as from defective fitting of parts or from wear. 26. to undergo treatment by labor in a given way: This dough works slowly. 27. to ferment, as a liquid. –verb (used with object) 28. to use or manage (an apparatus, contrivance, etc.): She can work many business machines. 29. to bring about (any result) by or as by work or effort: to work a change. 30. to manipulate or treat by labor: to work butter. 31. to put into effective operation. 32. to operate (a mine, farm, etc.) for productive purposes: to work a coal mine. 33. to carry on operations in (a district or region). 34. to make, fashion, or execute by work. 35. to achieve or win by work or effort: to work one's passage. 36. to keep (a person, a horse, etc.) at work: She works her employees hard. 37. to influence or persuade, esp. insidiously: to work other people to one's will. 38. Informal. to exploit (someone or something) to one's advantage: See if you can work your uncle for a new car. He worked his charm in landing a new job. 39. to make or decorate by needlework or embroidery: She worked a needlepoint cushion. 40. to cause fermentation in. —Verb phrases 41. work in or into, a. to bring or put in; add, merge, or blend: The tailor worked in the patch skillfully. Work the cream into the hands until it is completely absorbed. b. to arrange a time or employment for: The dentist was very busy, but said she would be able to work me in late in the afternoon. They worked him into the new operation. 42. work off, a. to lose or dispose of, as by exercise or labor: We decided to work off the effects of a heavy supper by walking for an hour. b. to pay or fulfill by working: He worked off his debt by doing odd jobs. 43. work on or upon, to exercise influence on; persuade; affect:I'll work on her, and maybe she'll change her mind. 44. work out, a. to bring about by work, effort, or action. b. to solve, as a problem. c. to arrive at by or as by calculation. d. to pay (a debt) by working instead of paying money. e. to exhaust, as a mine. f. to issue in a result. g. to evolve; elaborate. h. to amount to (a total or specified figure); add up (to):The total works out to 176. i. to prove effective or successful: Their marriage just didn't work out. j. to practice, exercise, or train, esp. in order to become proficient in an athletic sport: The boxers are working out at the gym tonight. 45. work over, a. to study or examine thoroughly: For my term paper I worked over 30 volumes of Roman history. b. Informal. to beat unsparingly, esp. in order to obtain something or out of revenge: They threatened to work him over until he talked. 46. work through, to deal with successfully; come to terms with: to work through one's feelings of guilt. 47. work up, a. to move or stir the feelings; excite. b. to prepare; elaborate: Work up some plans. c. to increase in efficiency or skill: He worked up his typing speed to 70 words a minute. 48. work up to, rise to a higher position; advance: He worked up to the presidency. —Idioms 49. at work, a. working, as at one's job: He's at work on a new novel. b. in action or operation: to see the machines at work. 50. gum up the works, Slang. to spoil something, as through blundering or stupidity: The surprise party was all arranged, but her little brother gummed up the works and told her. 51. in the works, in preparation or being planned: A musical version of the book is in the works. 52. make short work of, to finish or dispose of quickly: We made short work of the chocolate layer cake. 53. out of work, unemployed; jobless: Many people in the area were out of work. 54. shoot the works, Slang. to spend all one's resources: Let's shoot the works and order the crêpes suzette. Domesticity –noun, plural -ties. 1. the state of being domestic; domestic or home life. 2. a domestic or household act, activity, duty, or chore. Resistance –noun 1. the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding. 2. the opposition offered by one thing, force, etc., to another. 3. Electricity. a. Also called ohmic resistance. a property of a conductor by virtue of which the passage of current is opposed, causing electric energy to be transformed into heat: equal to the voltage across the conductor divided by the current flowing in the conductor: usually measured in ohms. Abbreviation: R b. a conductor or coil offering such opposition; resistor. 4. Psychiatry. opposition to an attempt to bring repressed thoughts or feelings into consciousness. 5. (often initial capital letter) an underground organization composed of groups of private individuals working as an opposition force in a conquered country to overthrow the occupying power, usually by acts of sabotage, guerrilla warfare, etc.: the resistance during the German occupation in World War II. 6. Stock Exchange. resistance level. Routines –noun 1. a customary or regular course of procedure. 2. commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity: the routine of an office. 3. regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure. 4. an unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient or predictable response: Don't give me that brotherly-love routine! 5. Computers. a. a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer to perform a series of operations. b. a series of operations performed by the computer. 6. an individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer: a comic routine; a dance routine. –adjective 7. of the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine:routine duties. 8. dull or uninteresting; commonplace. Utopia –noun 1. an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia(1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc. 2. (usually lowercase) an ideal place or state. 3. (usually lowercase) any visionary system of political or social perfection. Classification –noun 1. the act of classifying. 2. the result of classifying or being classified. 3. one of the groups or classes into which things may be or have been classified. 4. Biology. the assignment of organisms to groups within a system of categories distinguished by structure, origin, etc. The usual series of categories is phylum (or, esp. in botany,division), class, order, family, genus, species, and variety. 5. the category, as restricted, confidential, secret, or top secret, to which information, a document, etc., is assigned, as by a government or military agency, based on the degree of protection considered necessary to safeguard it from unauthorized use. 6. Library Science. any of various systems for arranging books and other materials, esp. according to subject or format.