As an adjective complacent

is uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.

As a noun compliance is

an act of complying.

As an adjective compliant is

willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.

In transitive terms the difference between ascend and raise

is that ascend is to succeed while raise is to create, increase or develop.

In figurative terms the difference between ascend and raise

is that ascend is to rise; to become higher, more noble, etc while raise is to cause (a dead person) to live again, to cause to be undead.

As verbs the difference between ascend and raise

is that ascend is to move upward, to fly, to soar while raise is to cause to rise; to lift or elevate.

As a noun raise is

an increase in wages or salary; a rise UK.

As nouns the difference between pretense and pretention

is that pretense is (us) a false or hypocritical profession, as, under pretense of friendliness while pretention is pretentiousness.

As a verb barbarian

is .

As a noun civilization is

an organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.

As a proper noun civilization is

collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised]], as savages or [[barbarian|barbarians cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the civilised world .

As a proper noun holiday

is .

As a noun relaxation is

the act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation and leisure activities.

As a noun proggins

is {{cx|UK|universities|slang|dated|lang=en}} proctor.

As a verb progging is

present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between tiara and tiars

is that tiara is the papal crown while tiars is plural of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between downness and downiness

is that downness is (quantum physics) the property of being a down quark while downiness is the quality of being downy.

As adjectives the difference between aldaric and allaric

is that aldaric is of or pertaining to an aldaric acid or its derivative while allaric is (organic chemistry) allomucic.