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Usage

• lexicon

  The lexicon of a particular subject or language is all the words, phrases, and terms associated with it.

• pantheon

  The best or most highly regarded members of a particular group are known as a pantheon.

• automaton

  someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way

• canon

  a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy

• criterion

  a basis for comparison

• decathlon

  an athletic contest consisting of ten different events

• demon

  an evil supernatural being

• dragon

  a creature of Teutonic mythology

• electron

  an elementary particle with negative charge

• horizon

  the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet

• icon

  (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface

• micron

  a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter

• neuron

  a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses

• nickelodeon

  a cabinet containing an automatic record player

• philodendron

  often grown as a houseplant

• rhododendron

  any shrub of the genus Rhododendron: evergreen shrubs or small shrubby trees having leathery leaves and showy clusters of campanulate (bell-shaped) flowers