n. the earliest victim in any cause (*) protomartyr (*) chaos (*) requiem (*) overlord

n. a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another (*) iniquity (*) repartee (*) homophone (*) annunciation

n. desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies (*) subjection (*) skirmish (*) complicity (*) intolerance

n. the voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause (*) leviathan (*) dedication (*) epicycloid (*) adjacency

n. the art of examining objects with the microscope (*) arrangement (*) microscopy (*) prelude (*) seismograph

n. a retraction (*) benefice (*) palinode (*) plasticity (*) ogre

n. the act of pleading a cause (*) advocacy (*) anthropology (*) proxy (*) pseudonymity

n. a dead body (*) origin (*) univalence (*) corpse (*) automaton

n. any ointment or lubricant for local application (*) unguent (*) imitator (*) predicament (*) hypocrisy

n. a flirt (*) persecution (*) coquette (*) sophistry (*) emphasis