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tactile
He had a tactile form of intelligence.
- of or connected w/ the sense of touch; tangible
- designed to be perceived by touch
- tactile exhibitions help blind people enjoy sculpture
rift
The rift b/t them would never be repaired.
- a crack, split, or break in something
- The wind had torn open a rift in the clouds.
rote
He disliked all of the rote learning.
- mechanical or habitual repetition of something to be learned. a poem learned by rote in childhood.
- routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure: the rote of daily living.
- rote performances, rote implementation; his behavior became more rote with every passing year.
flounder
At moments when you must make important decisions, you flounder or follow what others are doing b/c you have no sense of inner direction.
- struggle mentally; show or feel great confusion
impetuous
An impetuous person. An impetuous decision.
- acting or done quickly & w/o thought or care.
- moving forcefully or rapidly. The impetuous wind.
naivete
And these misconceptions and naivete are brutally exposed.
- lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement
- innocence or unsophistication
inculcated
In childhood we are inculcated in culture through a lond period of dependency.
- respect should be inculcated from birth, and is best learned by example.
instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) by persistent instruction. follow by “upon” or “in”
- to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea or feeling ( followed by “with”). Socrates inculcated his pupils with the love of truth
jaunts
On these & other jaunts,
- a short excursion or journey for pleasure
- her little jaunt in France was over
amass
As you amass more information about the rules and power dynamics of your environment,
- gather together or accumulate (a large amount or number of valuable material or thing) over a period of time
- starting from nothing he had amassed a huge fortune.
nebulous
the skills are more nebulous
- hazy
- unclear, vague, or ill-defined
- nebulous concepts like quality of life
tacit
tacit knowledge- a feeling for what you are doing that is hard to put into words but easy to demonstrate in action.
- understood or implied without being stated
- your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement
quaint
quaint relics of bygone eras
- attractively unusual or old-fashioned
- quaint country cottages
irrevocably
those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them.
- not able to changed, reversed, or recovered; final
- an irrevocable step
intuited
Many masters in history intuited this connection.
- understand or work out by instinct
- I intuited his real identity
stultify
but that would stultify his brain and sap his energy for thinking.
- cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative esp. as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine.
- the mentally stultifying effects of a disadvantage home.
