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cylinder

a solid or hollow tube with long straight sides and two circular ends the same size, or an object shaped like this, often used as a container:

Deep-sea divers carry cylinders of oxygen on their backs.

irrespective

without considering; not needing to allow for:

The legislation must be applied irrespective of someone's ethnic origins.

posit

to suggest something as a basic fact or principle from which a further idea is formed or developed:

[ + that ] If we posit that wage rises cause inflation, it follows that we should try to minimize them.

dispute

an argument or disagreement, especially an official one between, for example, workers and employers or two countries with a common border:

a bitter/long-running dispute

assessed

to judge or decide the amount, value, quality, or importance of something:

The insurers will need to assess the flood damage.

frenetic

involving a lot of excited movement or activity:

frenetic activity After weeks of frenetic activity, the job was finally finished.

solitary

A solitary person or thing is the only person or thing in a place:

On the hill, a solitary figure was busy chopping down trees.

preeminent

more important or powerful than all others:

He was the preeminent scientist of his day.

neo

new or recent, or in a modern form:

neo-fascist

conceptual

based on ideas or principles:

The main weakness of the proposal is conceptual.

polarize

to cause something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, to divide into two completely opposing groups:

The issue has polarized the nation.

subsequently

after something else:

In 1982 he was arrested and subsequently convicted on drug trafficking charges.

conversely

in an opposite way:

Poor health is accepted as an attribute of normal aging. Conversely, youth is depicted as a time of vitality and good health.

crustacean

any of various types of animal that live in water and have a hard outer shell

hence

that is the reason or explanation for:

His mother was Italian, hence his name - Luca.