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Ad hominem
a statement directed at a person rather than the position they stand for.
Adage
a proverb or short statement expressing general truth. The old adage is true.
Absolve
To declare free from guilt.
Example: I am absolved from the crime.
Ambivalent
Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
Capacious
Having a lot of space inside.
It’s capacious, yes.
Conceited
Being excessively proud of ones self.
Dank
(Adjective) Something that is unpleasant or cold.
Adjective
A word naming an attribute to something.
Abhorrent
Arousing/ inspiring disgust and loathing.
Precarious
An uncertain position to be in Not securely held or in position; likely to fall or collapse.
Example: that’s a precarious position to be in.
An uncertain position to be in.
Introspect
Examine ones own thoughts and feelings. To look inside ones self and where their positioned and why.
Derelict
In a very poor condition as a result of disuse or neglect.
Vivacious
Attractively lively and animated
Digress
Leave the main subject temporarily in speech or in writing.
Conventional
Based on accordance on what is generally done or believed.
Riveting
A riveting book; fascinating, gripping, engrossing, very interesting/ exciting.
Reticent
Adjective
Not revealing ones thoughts or emotions readily.
Crass
Showing no intelligence or sensitivity.
Partisan
A strong supporter of a party, or cause or person.
Renaissance
Culture and art developed during the Renaissance period 12-16th century.
Figuratively
Used to indicate a departure from the literal use of words (metaphorically).
Prudent
Acting with or showing care and thought for the future
Solipsistic
The belief or theory that the self is all there is to be known.
Invidious
Of an action or event likely to arouse or incur resentment.
Deprecate
Express disapproval of; what I deprecate is the persistent is indulgence.
Trite
Lacking originality or freshness; dull on account as a result of overuse.
Intimated
State or make known, Imply or hint
Laden
Heavily loaded or weighed down.
A tree laden down with apples.
Zeitgeist
The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of that time.
Posthumous
Occurring, awarded, or appearing after the death of the originator.
“he was awarded a posthumous Military Cross”
(of a child) born after the death of its father.
Post hoc
occurring or done after the event, especially with reference to the fallacious assumption that the occurrence in question has a logical relationship with the event it follows.
Fallacious
Based on mistaken beliefs.
Brevity
Concise and exact use of words
Untenable
Not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.
Tenable
Able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.
Dissonance
Inharmonious music notes etc.
Galavanting
Travel or roam about with pleasure
Curt
Rudely brief.
Terse
Sparing in the use of words.
Shrewd
Having or showing sharp powers of judgement.
Aptitude
A natural ability or tendency to do something.
Lurk
Be it to remain hidden so as to wait in ambush for someone or something.
Attrition
Process of reducing someone’s strength by continued attack and pressure.
Provisionally
Subject to further confirmation.
Insinuate
Suggest or hint in an indirect manor.
Equanimity
Calmness and composure especially in a difficult situation.
Melodious
Relating to or characterised by melody.
A melodious voice.
Chauvinism
Exaggerated or aggressive patriotism.
Reprehensible
Deserving censure or condemnation.
Race
The fact or condition of belonging to a racial division or group; the qualities and characteristics associated with this.
Biological definition: a population within a species that is distinct in some way.
Blasphemy
The action or offence sacrilegiously about a God or sacred things
Sacrilege
Violation or misuse of something that is regarded as sacred.
Secular
Not connected with religious or spiritual matters: secular buildings.
Irreverence
A lack of respect for people or things that are a generally taken as seriously.
An attitude of irreverence to politicians.
Profanity
Blasphemous or obscene language.
Bizarre
Very strange or unusual.
Bastion
A projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of the wall.
Paroxysm
A sudden outburst or attack of a particular emotion.
Submit
(With object) document/ present etc to be judged to a person or body for consideration or judgement.
Ethos
The characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations.
Cede
Give up power or territory
Vitriol
Bitter criticism or malice.
Latitude
The earths equater usually expresses between the distance of north and south.
Egalitarian
Believing in or based on the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
Debauchery
Excessive indulgence of sex, alcohol or drugs.
Pilgrimage
A journey to a particular place or significance.
Antecedents
A thing that existed before or logically precedes another.
Elegance
Quality of being graceful or stylish in manner or appearance.
Polyamorous
The practice of engaging in multiple sexual relationships with consent of all the people involved.
Might
Strength, force etc.
Obscene
Offending against moral principles; repugnant.
Fawning
Showing exaggerated flattery or affection.
Repugnant
Extremely inappropriate distasteful
Fascism
Authoritarian
Astonish
Surprise or impress greatly.
Incredulous
Unwilling or unable to believe something.
Credulity
A tendency to be too ready to believe something is real or true.
Debacle
A sudden or ignominious failure.
Tenure
Guaranteed permanent employment especially for a teacher or a lecture after a probationary period.
Conduit
A channel for conveying water or other fluid.
Deplorable
Deserving strong condemnation; completely unacceptable.
Nuanced
Characterised by subtle shades of meaning or expression.
Crass
No intelligence or sensitivity.
Bravado
A bold manor or show of boldness intended to impress or intimidate.
Tentative
Not certain or fixed; provisional: a tentative conclusion.
Proverbial
Used to stand for a word or a phrase that is normally part of a proverb or idiom not is not actually uttered. Example: one word out of line and proverbial hits the fan.
Farce
A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude.
Manifesto
A public declaration of policy and aims especially one sided before an election.
Ethno-nationalist
Ethnic nationalism, also known as ethno-nationalism, is a form of nationalism wherein the nation is defined in terms of ethnicity. The central theme of ethnic nationalists is that “nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry”.
Brevity
Concise and exact use of words or in speech.
Shortness briefness of human life.
Levity
The treatment of a serious matter with humour or a lack of due respect: an attempt to add a bit of levity to the situation.
Depravity
Moral corruption wickedness.
I wonder what depravities had occurred in that place.
Deluded
Make believe something that isn’t true: too many theorists have deluded the public.
Nefarious
Action or activity that’s wicked or criminal.
Solidarity
Unity or agreement of feeling or action.
Assertion
A confident and forceful statement of fact or belief.
Conjecture
An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.
Reverence
Deep respect for someone or something.
Tepid
Only slightly warm.
Espouse
Adopt or support (to makes ones own).
Capricious
Changing according to no discernible rule.
The capricious nature of fate.
Regaled
Entertain or amuse with talk.
Alas
Used to express grief pity or concern.
Garnered
Gather or collect (especially information or approval).
Adverse
Preventing success or development; harmful or unfavourable.
Shill
An accomplice of confidence trickster or swindler who poses as a genuine customer to entice or encourage others.
Pejorative
Expressing contempt or disapproval.
His speech was filled with pejorative terms.
Colonial
Relating to or characteristic of a colony or colonies.
Colony
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers of another country.
Bigot
Someone who is intolerant to those holding a difference in an opinion.
Inquisition
A period of prolonged and intensive questioning.
Relent
Abandon or mitigate a severe or harsh attitude especially by finally yielding to a request.
Pagan
Prehistoric times pagans used to worship the sun gods, heathen, infidel, idolater, non-theist, atheist, irreligious person.
Infidel
A person who has no religion or who’s religion is not the majority.
Agnostic
A person who believes nothing is known or can be known of the origin of God.
Denounce
Publicly declare to be wrong or evil.
Inform against.
Secular
Not connected with religious or spiritual matters. Secular buildings secular attitudes to death.
Not connected or bound to the religious rule.
Imposition
The action or process of imposing something or of being imposed (self).
Smeared
Coat or mark messily or carelessly with greasy or sticky substances.
Innocuous
Not harmful or offensive.
Noxious
Harmful or unpleasant.
Homogenous
Uniform, unvaried, identical.
Blasphemy
The action or offence of speaking sacrilegiously about god or sacred things; profane talk; he was detained on charges of blasphemy.
Profane
Not relating to something which is sacred or religious.
Renegade
A person who deserts and betrays and organisation, country or a set of principles.
Archaic
Very old or old fashioned
Out of date.
Propetiatation
Appease a divine god, spirit or person.
Fundamentalism
A form of religion particularly Islam or Protestant Christianity that upholds the belief in strict
Patriots
A person who vigorously supports
Castigated
Reprimand someone severely.
Blithering
Talk in a long winded way without making very much sense.
Anachronistic
Belonging to a period other than that being portrayed.
Belonging or appropriate to an earlier period, especially so as to seem conspicuously old fashioned: she is rebelling against the anachronistic morality of her parents.
Banal
So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring: songs with banal repeated words.
Anthropomorphised
The attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal, or object.
Retribution
Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.
Example: employees asked not to be named in fear of retribution.
Speculation
The forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
Example: the has been widespread speculation that he plans to quit.
Communism
A theory or system of social organisation in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.
Trope
A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.
Example: both clothes and illness became tropes for new attitudes towards the self.
Totalitarian
Relating to a system of government that is centralised and dictatorial and requires completely subservience to the state.
Pragmatic
Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
A pragmatic approach to politics.
Erudite
Having or showing great knowledge or learning.
Ken could turn any conversation into an erudite discussion.
Scholarship
Academic study or achievement; learning at a high level: the intellectual dishonesty has nothing to do with lack of scholarship.
Pervert
Distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of something.
Example: he was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Noun
a person whose sexual behaviour is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.
Bigot
A person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions.
Conflate
Combine (two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc.) into one.
Example: the urban crisis conflates a number of different economic, political, and social issues.
Euphemism
A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
Indoctrination
The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically: I would never subject a children to religious indoctrination.
Fanatical
Filled with excessive and single-minded zeal: fanatical revolutionaries.
Obsessively concerned with something: her husband was fanatical about tidiness.
Insurgency
An active revolt or uprising: rebels are waging an armed insurgency to topple the monarchy.
Self-righteous
Having or characterised by a certainty, especially an unfounded one.
Astute
Having or showing an ability to accurately assess a situation or people and turn this to ones advantage.
Aptitude
A natural ability to do something.
Vapid
Offering nothing stimulating or challenging.
Profundity
Great depth of insight or knowledge.
Temerity
Excessive confidence or boldness; audacity: no one had the temerity to question his conclusion.
Irony
A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects, and is often wryly amusing as a result.
Wryly
in a way that expresses dry especially mocking humour.
Tacit
Understood or implied without being stated: you silence may be taken to mean tacit
agreement.
Patter
Make a repeated light tapping sound.
Ergo
therefor: she was the sole beneficiary of the will, ergo the prime suspect.
Idol
Unhealthy:
an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship.
or
Healthy:
a person or thing that is greatly admired, loved, or revered: a basketball idol.
Pious
Devoutly religious: she was a pious women.
Platitude
A string of empty platitudes: cliché
A remark or statement, especially one with a moral content that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful: she began uttering liberal platitudes.
Non sequitur
A non sequitur is a conclusion or reply that doesn’t follow logically from the previous statement. You’ve probably heard an example of a non sequitur before, therefore bunny rabbits are way cuter than chipmunks. (Non sequiturs are often used for comedic effect in movies, novels, and TV shows.)
Sodomy
Anal intercourse.
Repudiate
Refuse to accept; reject: she has repudiated policies associated with previous party leaders.
Defile
Damage the purity or appearance of; mar or spoil: the land was defiled by a previous owner.
Gulf
Deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land with a narrow mouth.
Capricious
Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour.
Duplicitous
Deceitful: a duplicitous philanderer
Philanderer
A man who readily or frequently enters into casual sexual relationships with women; womaniser.
Aspersion
An attack on reputation or integrity of someone or something: cast an aspersion.
Covet
Yearn to possess.
Euphemism
A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
Deceit
The action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth.
Quip
A joke.
Rebuke
Express sharp disapproval or criticism of.
Exceptional
Unusual or atypical.
Poignant
Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.
Example a poignant reminder of the passing of time.
Parched
Dried out with heat parched Earth.
Informal: extremely thirsty.
Indubitably
Unquestionable
Hapless
adjective
Especially of a person unfortunate: the hapless victims of the disaster.
Shenanigans
Secret or dishonest activity or manoeuvring.
Concession
The action of conceding
Superlative
The highest extent or degree of something can be grammatical for example richest is the superlative of rich. A superlative person meaning exaggeration.
Superfluity
An unnecessary thing, or amount of something. A person showing their superfluity.
Explicit
Stated clearly; leaving no room for confusion or doubt.
Ignominious
Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame
Uncanny
Strange or mysterious especially in an unsettling way.
Vacillate
To waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive.
Fickle
Changing frequently especially in regards to ones loyalties or affections.
Inoculate
Treat with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.
Synonym: vaccinate.
Apprehend
Language is the only tool that we have to apprehend reality.
Conceit
Lilly’s eyes widened at his extraordinary conceit: vanity, narcissism.
Figurative
A figurative expression; metaphorical, non literal, symbolic.
Apt
Appropriate or suitable in the circumstances: the theme could not be more apt.
Tumultuous
He left the stage in an tumultuous applause: loud, deafening, thunderous.
Nebulous
The figure was still nebulous, she couldn’t quite see it: indistinct, indefinite, unclear, vague.
Vehement
Showing strong feeling: forceful, passionate.
Stochastic
Having random probability distribution or pattern that may be analysed statistically but may not be predicted precisely.
Abdicate
Fail to fulfil or undertake.
Example:
The government has was accused of abdicating its responsibility.
Ameliorate
Make something bad or unsatisfactory better.
Derivatives:
Ameliorative
Ameliorative
Auspicious
Conducive to success; favourable.
It was not the most auspicious moment to hold an election.
Giving or being a sign of future success.
They said it was an auspicious moon - it was rising.
Capitulate
Seize to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; yield: the patriots had to capitulate to the enemies forces.
Recapitulate
To summarise.
Former
That which comes before
Latter
That which come after.
Notwithstanding
In spite of, regardless of; the evidence the jury will not reach a verdict.
I remained notwithstanding the anger felt towards…
Shill
An accomplice of a confidence trickster or a swindler who poses as a genuine customer to entice or encourage others.
A person who pretends to give an impartial endorsement of something in which they themselves have interest.
Confidence trickster
A person who sets out to defraud or deceive people by persuading them to believe something that is not true.
Arcane
Mysterious, secret, only understood by a few.
Hackneyed
Having been overused, unoriginal and trite.
Trite
Lacking originality or freshness, dull in account of overuse.
Ostensibly
Apparently - as appears or is stated to be true.
Quell
- Put an end to
2. Calm
Conspicuous
Easily seen
Inconspicuous
Not clearly visible
Taxonomy
A branch of science concerned with classification, especially with organisms and systematics.
Charlatan
A person falsely claiming to have special knowledge or skill.
Imperious
Arrogant and domineering: his imperious demands.
Implication
- A conclusion that can be drawn from something although it is not explicitly stated: the implication is that no one person at the bank is responsible.
- The action or state of being involved in something: our implication in the problems.
Perennial
- Laying out existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring: his perennial distrust of the media
Apparently permanently engaged in a specified role or way of life: he’s a perennial student.
Pantheon
Noun
- All the gods of people or religion collectively: the deities of the Hindu pantheon.
- A group of famous or important people . The pantheon of the all time greats.
A building in which the illustrious deadly a nation are buried or honoured.
Suburb
An outlying district of the city especially a residential one.
