Term: grass roots: the essential foundation or source
Broader: foundation: the basis on which something is grounded | Unrelated: gossip columnist: a journalist who writes a column of gossip about celebrities
Broader: foundation: the basis on which something is grounded | Unrelated: modulation: the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
Broader: foundation: the basis on which something is grounded | Unrelated: hardening: the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
Broader: foundation: the basis on which something is grounded | Unrelated: lycopsida: club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
Broader: foundation: the basis on which something is grounded | Unrelated: cubitus: the arm from the elbow to the fingertips
Broader: foundation: the basis on which something is grounded | Unrelated: tenebrionidae: a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms
Broader: foundation: the basis on which something is grounded | Unrelated: myopia: (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
Broader: foundation: the basis on which something is grounded | Unrelated: oversensitiveness: sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset
Broader: foundation: the basis on which something is grounded | Unrelated: inoculant: a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease
Broader: foundation: the basis on which something is grounded | Unrelated: monohydrate: a hydrate that contains one molecule of water per molecule of the compound