Through which light cannot pass:

• Obscure
• Opaque
• Dark
• Dull

Government runs its administration through departments staffed by civil servants:

• Bureaucracy
• Democracy
• Aristocracy
• oligarchy

Child of unusual or remarkable talent:

• Prodigy
• Genius
• Greek
• Intellectual

A person who does not think or behave like everyone else, but has independent, unusual opinions:

• Hermit
• Individual
• Maverick
• Matriarch

Person who directs preparation of a newspaper:

• Instructor
• Auditor
• Editor
• Author

An animal living on fish:

• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Piscivore
• Parasite

The act of killing one's own father:

• Parricide
• Patricide
• Fratricide
• Parasite

Can be read clearly:

• Eligible
• Intangible
• Illegible
• Legible

The study of population is called:

• Biography
• Cartography
• Anthropology
• Demography

Not to be moved by entreaty

• Rigorous
• Negligent
• Inexorable
• Despotic