Term: potemkin: a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: subtonic: (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: broken arch: an arch with a gap at the apex; the gap is usually filled with some decoration
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: bunt: disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: levallorphan: drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: here: the present location; this place
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: face: the general outward appearance of something
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: fund-raising campaign: a campaign to raise money for some cause
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: comparative negligence: (law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: hockey coach: a coach of hockey players
Broader: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) | Unrelated: draft beer: beer drawn from a keg