Why do we love

Question 1

intoxicating

Answer 1

giving you a lot of happiness or excitement

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Question 2

intriguing

Answer 2

very interesting because of being unusual or mysterious:

- some of our most respected philosophers have put forward some intriguing theories.

Question 3

comic playwright

Answer 3

comedy-writer

Question 4

regale

Answer 4

to entertain someone with stories or jokes:

- Aristophanes, a comic playwright, regales the guests with the following story:

Question 5

longing

Answer 5

a feeling of wanting something or someone very much:

- Love is the longing to find a soulmate who’ll make us feel whole again,

Question 6

voluptuous

Answer 6

A voluptuous woman has a soft, curved, sexually attractive body:

Question 7

illusion

Answer 7

an idea or belief that is not true:
- Much, much later, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer maintained that love based in sexual desire was a voluptuous illusion.

Question 8

fusion

Answer 8

an occasion when two or more things join or are combined:

- and the loving fusion we seek is consummated in our children.

Question 9

consummate

Answer 9

to make something complete or perfect:

-and the loving fusion we seek is consummated in our children.

Question 10

torment

Answer 10

great mental suffering and unhappiness, or great physical pain:
- When our sexual desires are satisfied, we are thrown back into our tormented existences,

Question 11

perpetuating

Answer 11

to cause something to continue:

- and perpetuating the cycle of human drudgery.

Question 12

drudgery

Answer 12

hard boring work:

- and perpetuating the cycle of human drudgery.

Question 13

quench

Answer 13

to satisfy a need or wish:

- we love in order to quench our physical and psychological desires.

Question 14

ecstasy

Answer 14

a state of extreme happiness, especially when feeling pleasure:
- but without the ecstasy of passionate love, sex is unsatisfying.

Question 15

passionate

Answer 15

having very strong feelings or emotions:

- but without the ecstasy of passionate love, sex is unsatisfying.

Question 16

delight

Answer 16

(something or someone that gives) great pleasure, satisfaction, or happiness:
- Love’s delight, intimacy, and warmth helps us overcome our fear of the world.

Question 17

intimacy

Answer 17

a situation in which you have a close friendship or sexual relationship with someone:
- Love’s delight, intimacy, and warmth helps us overcome our fear of the world,

Question 18

abundantly

Answer 18

in large quantities or amounts:

- and engage more abundantly in life.

Question 19

enrich

Answer 19

to improve the quality of something by adding something else:
- Love enriches our whole being, making it the best thing in life.

Question 20

affliction

Answer 20

something that makes you suffer:

- Love is a misleading affliction.

Question 21

misleading

Answer 21

causing someone to believe something that is not true:

- Love is a misleading affliction.

Question 22

defect

Answer 22

a fault or problem in something or someone that spoils that thing or person or causes it, him, or her not to work correctly:
- There are so many defects in our education system.

Question 23

attachment

Answer 23

a feeling of love or a strong connection to someone or something::
- Yet, our passionate cravings are defects, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of suffering.

Question 24

extinguish

Answer 24

to stop a fire or a light burning:

Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire

Question 25

enlightened

Answer 25

showing understanding, acting in a positive way, and not following old-fashioned or false beliefs:

Question 26

clarity

Answer 26

the quality of being clear and easy to understand:

- an enlightened state of peace, clarity, wisdom, and compassion.

Question 27

wisdom

Answer 27

the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgments:
- an enlightened state of peace, clarity, wisdom, and compassion.

Question 28

compassion

Answer 28

a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for the suffering or bad luck of others and a wish to help them:
- an enlightened state of peace, clarity, wisdom, and compassion.

Question 29

sentiment

Answer 29

a thought, opinion, or idea based on a feeling about a situation, or a way of thinking about something:
- The novelist Cao Xueqin illustrated this Buddhist sentiment

Question 30

drag sb away

Answer 30

to make someone leave a place or stop doing what they are doing so that they can go somewhere else or do something else:
- His soul enters the mirror and he is dragged away in iron chains to die

Question 31

tragedy

Answer 31

a very sad event or situation, especially one involving death or suffering:
- Not all Buddhists think this way about romantic and erotic love, but the moral of this story is that such attachments spell tragedy, and should, along with magic mirrors, be avoided.

Question 32

imfuses = imbue

Answer 32

to fill someone or something with an emotion or quality:

- love is the desire to integrate with another and that it infuses our lives with meaning.

Question 33

captivating

Answer 33

very interesting or attractive in a way that takes all your attention
- is it can be so captivating, that we are tempted to make it our only reason for being.

Question 34

justify

Answer 34

to give or to be a good reason for:

- Yet, dependence on another to justify our existence easily leads to boredom and power games.

Question 35

authentically

Answer 35

in a way that is honest or sincere:

- To avoid this trap, Beauvoir advised loving authentically, which is more like a great friendship.

Question 36

exhilarating

Answer 36

making you feel very excited and happy

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