something that interests you because it is important or affects you | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife |
a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell) |
an anxious feeling | the solid part of the earth's surface |
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on |
| the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface |
| once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour black bile |