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Act of renunciation.
OR
Self denial.
Hedonic control = abstinence Indulgence control = temperance As a philosophy = asceticism Spending control = austerity Action control = resignation
ABNEGATION
Repeal a law, right or agreement.
(Repudiate, revoke, rescind, overturn, override, overrule, mitigate, negate, invalidate)
OR
Evade a responsibility.
ABROGATE (abrogation)
Difficulty to understand.
“Those who are OBTUSE will have difficulty ascertaining that which is ABSTRUSE.”
ABSTRUSE
Brisk and cheerful readiness.
OR
Enthusiasm in response.
ALACRITY
Walk about from place to place.
AND RELATED:
To walk around something, especially ritualistically. May create concentric circles.
AMBULATE
CIRCUMAMBULATE
Short story about a incident or person
AND RELATED:
By means of personal account rather than by research.
ANECDOTE
ANECDOTALLY
Focal length of an opening through which light travels.
APERTURE
DUBIOUS authenticity.
Unsanctioned, fallacious, spurious
APOCRYPHAL (apocrypha: not genuine writings)
Secret and mysterious.
ARCANE
Unreliable
OR
Doubting
DUBIOUS
False or misleading charge meant to injure someone’s reputation.
ASPERSIONS
Ability to do something without occupying the mind with low level details (repetition, reiteration, reinforcement).
To become an automatic response pattern or habit.
AUTOMATICITY
Constant in application or attention.
ASSIDUOUS-LY
That which is self evident or unquestionable.
AXIOMATIC
Axiom: statement or proposition regarded as established or self evidently true
Charitably
WHEREAS
BENEFACTION: Conferring a benefit from a BENEFACTOR to BENEFICIARY
AND
MALIGNANCY: Deliberate harm or distress
BENEFICENCE
Prudent or astute: shrewd, savvy
LIKE
SAGACITY(OUS): Keen mental awareness or judgment.
CMPR
UNCANNY: Having a supernatural or inexplicable basis
CANNY
To walk around something - especially ritualistically.
Orbiting like with concentric circles.
CIRCUMAMBULATE
Regard as belonging to a canon (sanctioned body of work)
Aggrandizement, apotheosize, deify, dignify, ennoble, idolize, laud
CANONIZE (make CANONICAL)
Wary and unwilling to take risks.
Reluctant, noncommittal, chary, restrained
CIRCUMSPECT
To merge (often unrelated) ideas together.
CONFLATE
Anxiety caused by regret for wrongdoing OR hesitation about the rightness of an action.
COMPUNCTION
A destructive blaze.
OR
Something INFLAMMATORY.
CONFLAGRATION(IVE)
Disorder and commotion.
OR
A turbulent uprising.
TUMULT-UOUS
Incitement to insurrection.
SEDITION(OUS)
Guided by principles.
OR
Industrial and organized.
oCean
CONSCIENTIOUS
Adopt a policy or idea as your own (appropriation or misappropriation)
OR
Divert for for use in a role other than as originally intended.
CO-OPT
To revoke an order.
OR
An order revoking a prior order.
COUNTERMAND
Readiness to believe: boarding on gullible or naive.
WHEREAS
INCREDULOUS: Disbelieving, dubious, unconvinced
CREDULOUS
An insensitive action or statement.
OR
Without refinement.
CRASS
Showing fearlessness and determination: indomitable, audacious, intrepid, courageous, daring
DAUNTLESS
Division into two mutually-exclusive or antithetical alternatives.
DICHOTOMY(OUS)
Superlative: most DICHOTOMIC
Direct an unequivocal opposition.
ANTITHETICAL (the antithesis)
Intended to teach with a moral instruction as an ulterior motive as its pedagogy.
Instructive, doctrinal, pedagogic (manner of teaching)
WHEREAS
AUTODIDACT: Self taught
DIDACTIC
Serving to separate or divide.
Make disjoint.
DISJUNCTIVE
Bookish and pedantic (narrowly, stodgily, and ostentatiously learned)
DONNISH
One who unduly emphasizes minutia in the display of knowledge.
PEDANT-IC-ALLY
Two-faced and deceitful.
DUPLICITY(OUS)
Having traits traditionally considered feminine.
CMPR
EFFEMINIZE: To make EFFEMINATE
EFFEMINATE
Exhausted or vigor.
Fatigued, degenerate, decadent, ANEMIC.
EFFETE
Vivacious and enthusiastic.
OR
Liquid fizzle.
EFFERVESCENT
Expressing gratitude or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt way.
EFFUSIVE
To make lucid (clear) or divine (discoverable though intuition) through illumination.
ELUCIDATE
Easy to understand (NOT ABSTRUSE)
OR
Transparently clear.
PELLUCID
Based on observation or experience rather than the application of logic or theory.
An A POSTERIORI
EMPIRICAL
Having an internal cause or origin.
OPPOSITE
Having an external cause or origin.
ENDOGENOUS
EXOGENOUS
Depleting of energy or enthusiasm.
Fatiguing or disheartening.
ENERVATING
Short-lived or transitory.
“The ephemeral joys of childhood.”
EPHEMERAL
Contemplates a possibility or desired future event.
ENVISAGE-D(S)
Theory of knowledge.
Investigation to distinguish justified belief from opinion.
OPPOSITE
Proven to be false; fallacious
EPISTEMOLOGY(ICAL)
PSEUDO-LOGIC(AL)
Mental composure in a difficult situation.
Poised, levelheaded, self-possessed
EQUANIMITY
Displaying knowledge gained through studying.
ERUDITE(ION)
Understood by a small population with specialized knowledge or interest.
Subject may seen ARCANE.
ESOTERIC-ISM
Delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
Elegant, exquisite, dainty, airy
ETHEREAL (up in the ETHER)
The event of gradually fading from sight.
Transitoriness
EVANESCENCE
An exact copy of something.
FACSIMILE
Careful attention to detail.
Difficult to please, exacting.
Especially scrupulous in matters of taste or propriety.
FASTIDIOUS
Abandoned, deserted
Bereft or deprived of hope.
FORLORN
Lack of seriousness, lightheartedness
FRIVOLOUS: Without serious purpose or value.
FRIVOLITY
Shock into action
OR
(Coat with zinc protectively)
CMPR
TANTALIZE: Torment with the promise of something unobtainable | it BECKONS the EVANESCES away.
GALVANIZE
Wealthy and privileged
OR
(Thinly covered with gold paint)
GUILDED
Symbol that represents an idea directly, rather than a word or phoneme
EXMP: Chinese character, hieroglyphics, trademarks
IDEOGRAM
An adherent of an ideology who is dogmatic and uncompromising
(INTRANSIGENT in their belief system)
SYN: evangelist (enthusiast advocate), fanatic, crusader, zealot
ANT: ICONOCLASTIC (tears down beliefs institutions)
IDEOLOGUE
Lacking in sense, significance, or ideas (bordering on stupid)
INANE questions or ideas.
INANE
Imply, hint or ALLUDE to
OR
Make known
ROOT: Intimate - very close association
INTIMATED (or to intimate)
Produce fear and timidity
Daunting, forbidding, formidable or frightening
INTIMIDATION
Instill by persistent instruction
LIKE
BUT more derogatory INDOCTRINATE: To teach to accept a system of beliefs uncritically
INCULCATE
Initial stage; beginning
LIKE
INCEPTION: Starring point of an institution or activity
INCIPIENT
Lacking in interest, stimulation, or challenge
OR
Lacking in taste or savor
INSIPID
Persisting tirelessly or unwearyingly
INDEFATIGABLE
Too great to be described in words
Indescribable, unspeakable
a JE NE SAIS QUOI quality
INEFFABLE
Not producing the desired effect.
INEFFECTUAL
Treat as a child or in a way that denies maturity in age or experience
INFANTILE
Innocent and unsuspecting.
ANT
DISINGENUOUS: Without candor or sincerity, pretending that one knows less than what they really do
INGENIOUS
Unfriendly, hostile and antagonizing
Menacing
INIMICAL
Impact in a negative way
LIKE
ENCROACH: Intrude on a property
OR
INFRINGE: Violate a law
IMPINGE
Exempt from punishment or consequence
WHEREAS
IMMUNITY: Not susceptible to any harm
IMPUNITY
Ignorant or uninterested in ideas outside of one’s own experience
Incurious, parochial, provincial, sectarian, xenophobic
INSULAR
Process of understanding
An exercise of the intellect; reasoning
INTELLECTION
Refusing to agree or compromise
Inflexible
INTRANSIGENT(CE)
Equal divisions of time
As a cadence or tempo
ISOCHRONAL
Fond of company; sociable
Extroverted
GREGARIOUS
Stimulating sexual desire.
LASCIVIOUS
Inappropriate interest in sex.
SALACIOUS
Offensive desire.
LECHEROUS
Pursuing pleasure, self indulgent.
ANT:
ABNEGATION: self-denial
CMPR:
HEDONIC: considered in terms of pleasant or unpleasant sensations.
HEDONISTIC
Emitting light though not caused by heating.
CMPR:
ILLUMINATE: make comprehensible (or visible) by shedding light on (literally or figuratively)
LUMINESCENT
Light emitted from heating.
OR:
Passionate or emotional,
INCANDESCENT
A person who inspires or influences in a particular sphere.
OR:
A light giving body.
LUMINARY
Bungling and clumsy.
ANT:
ADROIT: Skillful of hand/mind; adept, dexterous, agile, nimble
MALADROIT
Careful and precise with details.
METICULOUS
A small, relatively unimportant, venial sin; minor offense or infraction; a misdemeanor.
PECCADILLO
A statement with a negative, derogatory, or condescending connotation that is intended to disparage or belittle.
PEJORATIVE
With precision and accuse attention to detail. (Not surprising they they are punctual.)
PUNCTILIOUS
Showing knowledge of event before they take place; predictive, prophetic, or clairvoyant.
PRESCIENT
Act of one animal preying on an another.
OR:
Attacking and plundering.
PREDATION
To base something on.
OR:
Affirm something about the subject of a proposition.
PREDICATE
Expressing unwarranted or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature.
PRETENTIOUS
Having an excessive interest in inappropriate or sexual matters.
PRURIENT
Do something in a makeshift IMPROMPTU way.
EXTEMPORIZE
Alternations in the course of something.
Fluctuations, permutations, switchover, transposition
LIKE:
UNDULATE: Rise and fall in a wavelike manner.
VICISSITUDE
To change the relative position or sequence of an order.
TRANSPOSE
Excessively grasping and covetous.
OR
RAVENOUS - a rapacious appetite.
RAPACIOUS
Repeated application of a rule or procedure to successive results.
MATHEMATICS: Repeated iterations of a calculation to closer approximate the solution.
RECURSIVE(ION)
Not revealing one’s thoughts or emotions.
WHEREAS:
RELUCTANT: is unwilling, disinclined, circumspect, wary, indisposed to
RETICENT(CE)
Obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline.
RECALCITRANT(CE)
Idea, place or routine regarded as too important to be interfered with.
SACROSANCT
Gesture (gesticulating) or utterances (uttering) made as greeting or acknowledgement of another’s arrival or departure.
SALUTATION
Making a showing of being morally superior.
Self righteous, pious
SANCTIMONIOUS
Optimistic in the face of adversity.
May display APLOMB, composure, or EQUANIMITY.
SANGUINE
Conscientious or exacting.
OR:
Having principles (scruples)
SCRUPULOUS
Specifically plausible, but actually wrong.
SPECIOUS
Not being what it purports to be.
LIKE: APOCRYPHAL
SPURIOUS
Enduring hardship without complaining.
STOIC(ISM)(AL)
Not easily stirred or moved mentally (a mental state).
LIKE: impassive, unemotional
STOLID
Restriction on a behavior.
OR:
A sternly critical or censorious remark.
STRICTURE
Fawning and OBSEQUIOUS (: servile obedience or deference)
Someone who make EFFUSIVE compliments.
UNCTUOUS: INGRATIATINGLY flattering OR oily
SYCOPHANT(IC)
Joyful ecstasy or delight.
OR
Carry a person to another sphere of existence.
RAPTURE(OUS)
Characterized by portraying servile obedience or excessive deference.
OBSEQUIOUS(NESS)
To move to and fro in positions, like a pendulum.
Move in a PENDULAR motion.
OSCILLATE(ION)
Understood or implied without being stated.
TACIT
The practice of ordering and classifying.
Eg: kingdom, phylum (division), class, order, family, genus, species
TAXONOMY
Easy to control (to make tractable).
ANT:
Difficult to control (an intractable problem)
(IN)TRACTABLE
Stubborn or resistant to stimulus.
WHEREAS:
REFRACT(ION)(IVE): The ability to change direction of a ray (light, sound, heat) by altering its wave velocity.
REFRACTORY
Any part, division, or installment.
TRANCHE
Lacking in freshness or originality due to overuse. Stale.
LIKE:
PLATITUDE: flat, dull, trite remark, uttered as if it were profound.
PROSAIC(ALLY): lacking poetry, commonplace or dull, unimaginative
PEDESTRIAN: lacking in vitality and imagination, uninspired and disenchanted
BROMIDE: (chem: salt) a person who is PLATITUDINOUS and boring.
TRITE
Feeling of resentment at some fancied slight or insult.
To take…
UMBRAGE
Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
LIKE:
INSIPID: without distinctive qualities (situationally) or bland (as to food)
VAPID
Having merely the appearance or semblance of truth.
VERISIMILITUDE
Friendship; peaceful harmony.
LIKE:
AMNESTY: to pardon or offer forgiveness.
ANT:
ENMITY: feeling of hostility, animosity, or antagonism.
AMITY
A tactical maneuver to gain an advantage.
GAMBIT
Sphere of operation or influence.
LIKE:
GAMUT: entire series or range.
AMBIT
Witty; brilliantly clever.
SCINTILLATING
Badly conceived, made, or carried out.
MISBEGOTTEN
Acting like an uncle; in being kind, patient, and generous to younger people.
AVUNCULAR
Depart in a sudden and secretive way to avoid capture or prosecution.
ABSCOND
