Cases of word usage

1) whatever happens (anyway)

2) government by paid officials not elected by the people who keep their positions whatever political party is in power (bureaucracy)

3) in whatever way; although that is true (however)

4) to compose music, words etc during the performance; to provide, make or do (something) quickly, using whatever happens to be available (improvise)

5) an apparatus which measures the amount of whatever passes through it, the distance travelled, fare payable etc; metre (meter)

6) something left with a person to be kept until the giver has done whatever he/she has to do (pledge)

7) (an area of) loose, wet, deep sand which sucks down whatever tries to cross it (quicksand)

8) to make (marks) on or in a surface, damage (one's skin), with something pointed or sharp, e.g. a pointed object, fingernail; a mark, cut, injury, wound, made by scratching; using whatever or whoever is available at the time (scratch)