- accretion: 1. the process of growth or increase, typically by the gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter. 2. thing formed or added by such growth or increase
- acrimonious: angry and bitter
- alacrity: eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm; promptness; speed; a cheerful willingness
- anachronism: anything out of its proper time in history
- antibiosis: an antagonistic association between two organisms (esp. microorganisms), in which one is adversely affected
- antithetic: sharply contrasted in character or purpose;
- antixenosis: a resistance mechanism employed (usually by a plant) to deter or prevent pest colonization
- apogee: the highest point in the development of something; the climax or culmination
- ardent: characterized by intense emotion
- asinine: devoid of intelligence
- atavistic: The return of a trait or recurrence of previous behavior after a period of absence.
- athwart: 1. Across from side to side; transversely. 2. So as to be perverse or contradictory
- austerity: 1. the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures). 2. In economics, austerity is when a national government reduces its spending in order to pay back creditors. Austerity is usually required when a government's fiscal deficit spending is felt to be unsustainable.
- autodidact: a self-taught person
- autopoiesis: auto (self)-creation; the process by which systems maintain their organization and regenerate their components in the course of their operation
- avarice: extreme greed for wealth or material gain
- bailiwick: the precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction, taken as a whole; the limits of a bailiff's authority; an area or subject of authority or involvement; a realm
- bellicose: ready or inclined to quarrel, fight, or go to war; zealous patriotism expressing itself especially in hostility towards other countries
- bellwether: One that serves as a leader or as a leading indicator of future trends
- bifurcation: the place where something divides into two branches
- bricolage: Construction using whatever was available at the time; Something constructed using whatever was available at the time
- capacious: having a lot of space inside; roomy
- cogent: Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence; Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; Forcefully persuasive
- cogitation: a carefully considered thought about something
- compendious: containing or presenting the essential facts of something in a comprehensive but concise way
- comport: conduct oneself; behave
- compunction: a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that follows the doing of something bad
- concinnity: Concinnity is the harmonious or purposeful reinforcement of the various parts of a work of art. Generally the higher the art, the higher the degree of concinnity.
- conjecture: reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
- consternation: fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- corpulent: excessively fat
- diaspora: the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
- diatribe: fulmination - thunderous verbal attack
- diurnal: during the day ;active in the daytime
- doyen: the most respected or prominent person in a particular field
- duplicitous: ambidextrous: marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another;
- ecumenical: universal experience; concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions
- edacious: devouring or craving food in great quantities
- egregious: outstandingly bad; shocking
- emancipation: freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child
- embonpoint: plumpness - the bodily property of being well rounded
- eudaimonia: wellbeing: a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
- excoriation: an area of the skin covered by a crust, or scab, usually caused by scratching
- exigent: urgent; needing immediate action; demanding; needing great effort
- fecund: producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile
- felicitous: 1. well-fitting, happening at the right time, 2. working out well, 3. semantically and pragmatically coherent, 4. fitting in the context
- fervor: intense and passionate feeling
- fetid: smelling extremely unpleasant
- gregarious: 1. (of a person) Fond of company; sociable.2. (of animals) Living in flocks or loosely organized communities.
- groupthink: The practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility
- hagiography: 1. The writing of the lives of saints. 2. Adulatory writing about another person. 3. A biography idealizing its subject.
- halcyon: tranquil; happy; calm; peaceful
- harbinger: something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- heed: pay close attention to;
- heuristic: enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves
- hierophant: a person, especially a priest in ancient Greece, who interprets sacred mysteries or esoteric principles
- histrionic: exaggerated dramatic behavior designed to attract attention
- holon: a holon (Greek: holos, "whole") is something that is simultaneously a whole and a part.
- ineffable: beyond expression in words; unspeakable
- Keynesian: A position held which supports J. M. Keynes & economic theory, and which has as its starting point the assumption that state finances should be used to counteract cyclical economic downturns. The argument implies that governments should focus on issues of employment and economic growth, rather on variables such as inflation.
- kibitz: make unwanted and intrusive comments
- legubrious: looking or sounding sad and dismal.
- loquacious: tending to talk a great deal; talkative
- mendacity: untruthfulness
- merinthophobia: fear of being bound or tied up
- metonymy: the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
- modicum: a small, modest or trifling amount
- monotonic: consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value; in mathematics, a monotonic function is a function which preserves the given order
- nefarious: infamous by way of being extremely wicked
- neologism: 1. The use of a new word or an old word in a new sense 2. newly coined term recently introduced in professional discourse
- nepotism: favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power
- numinous: having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity
- obsequious: obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
- obstreperous: noisily and stubbornly defiant; boisterously and noisily aggressive;
- odious: abominable: unequivocally detestable;
- oleaginous: 1. rich in, covered with, or producing oil; oily or greasy2. exaggeratedly and distastefully complimentary;
- ontology: is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as of the basic categories of being and their relations
- opprobrium: 1. harsh criticism or censure, 2. public disgrace arising from someone's shameful conduct.
- panopticon: an area where everything is visible; a circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which prisoners could at all times be observed
- parsimonious: extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
- pedantic: Overly concerned with minute details, a narrow focus on the trivial aspects of learning. Striving for the utmost correctness, eliminating ambiguity.
- perdition: eternal damnation; hell; absolute ruin
- perfidious: deceitful and untrustworthy
- pernicious: having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way
- perspicacious: having a ready insight into and understanding of things.
- perturbation: activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, interruption or disruption
- pestilence: 1. A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague. 2. A pernicious, evil influence or agent.
- petulant: 1. showing sudden, impatient annoyance or irritation, typically over something minor. 2. childishly sulky or bad-tempered
- phlegmatic: showing little emotion
- physic: purgative: a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
- Polytheism: Believing in the existence of more than one god.
- predilection: Condition of favoring or liking; tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition
- preternatural: surpassing the ordinary or normal;
- proclivities: A natural propensity or inclination; predisposition.
- proclivity: a predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially refers to a strong disposition or bent
- prodigal: 1. lavish: very generous 2. extravagant: recklessly wasteful
- profligate: debauched: unrestrained by convention or morality
- pugnacious: 1. eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight; 2. having the appearance of a willing fighter
- quixotic: not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic;
- rapacious: aggressively greedy or grasping
- recalcitrant: marked by a stubborn unwillingness to obey figures of authority; hard to deal with or operate;
- recapitulate: the brief recitement of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
- reparative: Tending to or intended to repair; Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation
- reticence: the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
- rhetoric: the art of using words effectively in writing or speaking so as to influence or persuade
- sacrosanct: regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with
- sagacious: having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment
- salacious: treating sexual matters in an indecent way and typically conveying undue interest in or enjoyment of the subject; lustful; lecherous; an obscenity is that which offends the prevalent sexual morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious
- salubrious: 1. health-giving; healthy; 2. pleasant; not run-down
- sankalpa: thought, intention, or will directed toward a specific outcome
- sedition: sedition is a term of law which refers to covert conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority as tending toward insurrection against the established order
- shibboleth: any distinguishing practice which is indicative of one's social or regional origin. It usually refers to features of language, and particularly to a word whose pronunciation identifies its speaker as being a member or not a member of a particular group.
- shibusa: an openness to nature
- stochastic: random, randomly-determined
- sublunary: belonging to this world as contrasted with a better or more spiritual one
- subterfuge: something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- supercilious: behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others
- tacit: Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection
- taciturn: reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little
- temerity: Reckless boldness; foolish bravery; An act or case of reckless boldness; Effrontery; impudence
- unredacted: sanitization (also redaction) is the process of removing sensitive information from a document or other medium, so that it may be distributed to a broader audience
- vacuous: Showing a lack of thought or intelligence
- vapid: offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging
- venality: prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward
- venerable: commanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position; worthy of reverence; ancient, antiquated or archaic
- verisimilitude: the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
- vicissitude: 1. continual or successive changes of circumstances, often for the worse. 2. a difficulty or hardship attendant on a way of life, a career, or a course of action and usually beyond one's control.
- virulent: 1. extremely severe or harmful in its effects. 2. highly infective
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