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Demerit :: Demerit (n.) To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry..

Worthiness :: Worthiness (n.) The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.

Deservedness :: Deservedness (n.) Meritoriousness.

Meritorious :: Meritorious (a.) Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.

Protomerite :: Protomerite (n.) The second segment of one of the Gregarinae.

Meedfully :: Meedfully (adv.) According to merit; suitably.

Ordinary :: Ordinary (a.) Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book..

Worthily :: Worthily (adv.) In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.

Appreciation :: Appreciation (n.) A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence..

Nepotism :: Nepotism (n.) Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim..

Virtue :: Virtue (n.) Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.

Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert..

Merit :: Merit (n.) Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits..

Meritable :: Meritable (a.) Deserving of reward.

Demerit :: Demerit (n.) The state of one who deserves ill.

Overmerit :: Overmerit (n.) Excessive merit.

Modesty :: Modesty (n.) The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit..

Jury :: "Jury (a.) A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize..

Superior :: Superior (n.) One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English..

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