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Noun
S:
(n)
choice
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selection
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option
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pick
(the act of choosing or selecting)
"your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick"
S:
(n)
selection
(an assortment of things from which a choice can be made)
"the store carried a large selection of shoes"
S:
(n)
choice
,
pick
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selection
(the person or thing chosen or selected)
"he was my pick for mayor"
S:
(n)
survival
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survival of the fittest
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natural selection
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selection
(a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment)
S:
(n)
excerpt
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excerption
,
extract
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selection
(a passage selected from a larger work)
"he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"