Enlightenment Now Flashcards
define “sentient”
able to perceive or feel things.
“she had been instructed from birth in the equality of all sentient life forms”
similar: capable of feeling, conscious, aware
define “innumerate”
define: “innumerate”
without a basic knowledge of mathematics and arithmetic.
“to this day I am practically innumerate”
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define: “vituperative”
uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse, marked by harshly abusive criticism
“the criticism soon turned into a vituperative attack”
define: “monotonic”.
of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
define: “capricious”
given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.
“it’s terrible to feel our livelihood hinges on a capricious boss”
similar: fickle, inconstant, unstable
define: “paucity”
the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity.
“a paucity of information”
similar: sparsity, dearth,shortage
define: “precocious”
(of a child) having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual.
“he was a precocious, solitary boy”
similar: advanced, gifted, talented
define: “bucolic”
relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life.
“the church is lovely for its bucolic setting”
similar: rustic, rural, pastoral
define: “homeostasis”
the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.
define: “teleological”
relating to or involving the explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than of the cause by which they arise.
“teleological narratives of progress”
define: “garrulous”
excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.
“Polonius is portrayed as a foolish, garrulous old man”
similar: talkative,verbose,long-winded
define: “rectitude”
morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness.
“Maddie is a model of rectitude”
similar: righteousness, goodness. virtue
define: “prosaic”
having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty.
“prosaic language can’t convey the experience”
similar: ordinary, usual, common
define: “rapacious”
aggressively greedy or grasping.
“rapacious landlords”
similar: greedy, avaricious, covetous
define: “mendacious”
not telling the truth; lying.
“mendacious propaganda”
similar: lying, deceitful, dishonest
define: “rectitude”
morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness.
“Maddie is a model of rectitude”
similar: righteousness, goodness, virtue
define: “rapacious”
aggressively greedy or grasping
“rapacious corporations”
similar:grasping, avaricious, covetous, greedy
define: “perturbation”
a deviation of a system, moving object, or process from its regular or normal state or path, caused by an outside influence.
define: “prosaic”
having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty.
“prosaic language can’t convey the experience”
similar:uninspired, mundane, factual, deadpan
define: “prescience”
the fact of knowing something before it takes place; foreknowledge.
“with extraordinary prescience, Jung actually predicted the Nazi eruption”
similar: foreknowledge, psychic powers, clairvoyance
define: “commiseration”
sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; compassion.
“the other actors offered him clumsy commiseration”
similar:condolences,sympathy,solace
define: “tawdry”
showy but cheap and of poor quality.
“tawdry jewelry and clothes”
similar:flashy, tasteless, garsih
define: “entropy”
a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system’s thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system.
“the second law of thermodynamics says that entropy always increases with time”
lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.
define: “precocious”
(of a child) having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual.
“he was a precocious, solitary boy”
similar: advanced, ahead of one’s peers, forward
