devour

(verb)

1. To eat up greedily

     2. To use up or destroy as if by eating

gruesome

(adjective)

1. Inspiring horror

2. Scenes of battle or death

preferred

(verb)

1. To like better or best

2. To give priority

Uranus

(noun)

1. The sky personified as a god and father of the

Titans in Greek mythology

2. The planet seventh in order from the sun

phenomenon

(noun)

1. An observable fact or event

     2. An object or aspect known through the senses rather than by thought or intuition