- alacrity: eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm; promptness; speed; a cheerful willingness
- anachronism: anything out of its proper time in history
- antithetic: sharply contrasted in character or purpose;
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- cogent: Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence; Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; Forcefully persuasive
- cogitation: a carefully considered thought about something
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- emancipation: freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child
- 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
- felicitous: 1. exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style. 2. marked by good fortune
- felicitous: Well-fitting, happening at the right time; Working out well; Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context
- halcyon: tranquil; happy; calm; peaceful
- harbinger: something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- heed: pay close attention to;
- 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.
- mendacity: untruthfulness
- modicum: a small, modest or trifling amount
- 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
- obstreperous: noisily and stubbornly defiant; boisterously and noisily aggressive;
- odious: abominable: unequivocally detestable;
- ontology: the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
- 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
- parsimonious: parsimony is a 'less is better' concept of frugality, economy, stinginess or caution in arriving at a hypothesis or course of action
- 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
- pestilence: 1. A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague. 2. A pernicious, evil influence or agent.
- 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
- quixotic: not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic;
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- stochastic: random, randomly-determined
- subterfuge: something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- tacit: Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection
- temerity: Reckless boldness; foolish bravery; An act or case of reckless boldness; Effrontery; impudence
- vacuous: Showing a lack of thought or intelligence
- 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
- 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.
