2. one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university

4. a branch of knowledge

6. intense aversion

7. the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods

8. the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913

10. assign a rank or rating to

1. a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

3. one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

5. imagination unrestricted by reality

9. a licensed medical practitioner

11. a university student who has not yet received a first degree

12. the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems