Nouns

(n)choice, selection, option, pickthe act of choosing or selecting“your choice of colors was unfortunate”, “you can take your pick”
(n)selectionan assortment of things from which a choice can be made“the store carried a large selection of shoes”
(n)choice, pick, selectionthe person or thing chosen or selected“he was my pick for mayor”
(n)survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selectiona natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
(n)excerpt, excerption, extract, selectiona passage selected from a larger work“he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings”