Term: scourge: a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: fiction: a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: cosmology: the metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: flat: a shallow box in which seedlings are started
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: freshwater bass: any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: gentianopsis: genus of fringed gentians; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: northern dune tansy: lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers; sand dunes of Pacific coast of North America
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: heroic verse: a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: intentionality: expressive of intentions
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: permutation: the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: developer: photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film