• gerontocracy - a political system governed by old men
  • winnowing - the act of separating the grain from the chaff; select the desirable parts of a group or list; to cull
  • rueful - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for offenses
  • onerous - not easily borne; wearing (burdensome, taxing)
  • copse - a dense growth of bushes
  • brake - an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

various sources, Lemmy users, and curiosities