1. Having or showing signs of subtle or extensive knowledge or experience; not naive or simple; worldly-wise.

2. A quality in life or art that evokes pity, sadness, or compassion.

3. To question at length and thoroughly, often for an official purpose.

4. Having a fighting inclination or character; warlike.

5. Having to do with the study of human populations, involving statistical analysis of size, distribution, density, migration, fertility, and the like.

6. The intentional attempt to exterminate all members of a certain race, nationality, or ethnic group.

7. Something used to persuade someone to a course of action; incentive.

8. In name alone.

9. In disguise; under a false identity.

10. To vary or change irregularly; rise and fall.

11. Dragged out, extended in time; prolonged.

12. To bring on the hostility of; make an enemy of.

13. Tending to a certain behavior or illness for a long time or continually.

14. Full of life and spirit; animated.

15. Heard or able to be heard.

16. Faithfulness.

17. To establish the truth or accuracy of; substantiate; confirm.

18. Something discarded or returned as being defective or inadequate.

19 . Holding on or tending to hold on strongly or persistently (sometimes fol. by of).

20. Given to talking much or excessively; garrulous.