the state, condition of existing (e.g. growing, moving, reproducing)
animation, spirit
Cases of word usage
1) the life that some people think comes after death (afterlife)
2) the things, conditions, that make life easy or pleasant (amenity)
3) having life (animate)
4) (of) a person who (often for religious reasons) leads a very simple life without pleasures (ascetic)
5) a story of a person's life written by herself or himself (autobiography)
6) a person's life history written by another (biography)
7) the scientific study of the physical life of animals and plants (biology)
8) (an organized chart with) a pattern or mental, emotional or physical activity affecting each person's (way of) life (biorhythm)
9) the shortness (of statements, human life and other non-material things) (brevity)
10) an accident, especially one involving loss of life or seriously injury (casualty)