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Acephalous Without a leader or chief; Deficient in the beginning as in false grammatical structure.
Acolyte The word acolyte is derived from the Greek word akolouthos, meaning companion, attendant, or helper. 
Akrasia the state of acting against one’s better judgment
Anomie A personal condition resulting from a lack of norms.
Antiquarian An aficionado of antiquities or things of the past.
Argot The jargon, slang or peculiar phraseology of a class; originally that of thieves and vagabonds.
Autopoiesis From a very general point of view, the notion of autopoiesis is often associated with that of self-organization. However, an autopoietic system is autonomous and operationally closed, in the sense that every process within it directly helps maintaining the whole. 
Axiomatic Evident without proof or argument. 
Bagatelle something of little value or importance; a trifle.
Bellicose favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars
Benificent Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity
Bourgeoisie The middle or property-owning class.
Bricolage Make creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are at hand (regardless of their original purpose), or work created by such process.
Cadre The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group. 
Cicerone Cicerone is an old term for a guide, one who conducts visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest.
Cloture Terminate a debate by calling for a vote
Comport Behave ; especially : to behave in a manner conformable to what is right, proper, or expected
Concomitant Existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way.
Conflation When the identities of two or more individuals, concepts, or places, sharing some characteristics of one another, become confused until there seems to be only a single identity — the differences appear to become lost.
Confluence a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point 
Corrolary a statement which follows readily from a previous statement.
Coup de Grace A death blow intended to end the suffering of a wounded creature.
Cozen to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery
Didactic Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
1.Excessively moralizing.
2.Regarding medicine, teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application. 
Dispensation A particular arranagement or provision, especially of providence or nature.
Dogma the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization: it is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from.
Enclave a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory 
Episodic Of or limited in duration or significance to a particular episode 
Epistemology the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge.
Epochal Unique or highly significant; momentous.
Eschatology A part of theology and philosophy concerned with what are believed to be the final events in history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world
Euphamism a word or phrase that is used in place of a disagreeable or offensive term. When a phrase becomes a euphemism, its literal meaning is often pushed aside. In linguistics, the process of coining euphemisms is called taboo deformation.
Exhortation Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.
Explicate to explain meticulously or in great detail; to elucidate; to analyze
Exposition One of four rhetorical modes of discourse, the purpose of which is to inform, explain, analyze, or define.
Fecundity The ability to cause growth or produce offspring.
Fructify to bear fruit
Garrulous Excessively or tiresomely talkative. 
Gnostic possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things
Grandiloquent speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
Gravitas High seriousness, as in a person’s bearing or in the treatment of a subject.
Habituation The psychological process in humans and animals in which there is a decrease in psychological response to a stimulus after repeated exposure to that stimulus over time.
Iconoclast An iconoclast is someone who performs iconoclasm — destruction of religious symbols, or, by extension, established dogma or conventions.
Idiom an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements or from the general grammatical rules of a language
Idiomatic Pertaining or conforming to the mode of expression characteristic of a language. 
Impudent  Not showing due respect
Ineffable incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible
Inter alia among other things
Intransigent  refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible
Juxtaposition two objects or texts that oppose one another 
Laconic Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise. 
Lemma a proven statement used as a stepping-stone toward the proof of another statement
Logical Tautology a compound propositional form all of whose instances are true, as “A or not A.”
Matriculate  to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university
Maturate to mature, ripen or develop
Mendacity A lie; a falsehood
Missive A written message; a letter, note or memo.
Mooring Casting an anchor, or becoming fastened.
Neologism The use of words that only have meaning to the person who uses them.
Obloquy Abusive language or disgrace suffered from such.
Oeuvre A substantial body of work constituting the lifework of a writer, an artist, or composer
Omnibus Including or covering many things or classes
Ontology A formal, explicit specification of a shared conceptualization.
Opprobrium the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy
Panegyric A formal public speech, or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing
Parse To split a file or other input into bits of data that can be easily stored or manipulated. 
Peradventure Chance, uncertainty or doubt.
Pernicious Causing death or injury; deadly; or causing much harm in a subtle way.
Phalanx A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose. 
Proviso A conditional stipulation.
Proxy agent or substitute authorized to act for another person
Pulchritudinous Having physical beauty; beautiful.
Recursive pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
Requisite necessary
Rhetoric is the art of using language, especially public speaking and writing, as a means to persuade.
Sagacity The quality of being wise, or able to make good decisions.
Sanguine Having the colour of blood; red. 
Secularism the concept that government or other entities should exist separately from religion and/or religious beliefs.
Seminal highly original and influencing the development of future events
Semiotics The study of signification and communication, signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is constructed and understood.
Simulacrum an image or representation without the substance or qualities of the original
Solidarity A bond of unity between individuals, united around a common goal or against a common enemy
Solipsism the philosophical idea that only one’s own mind is certain to exist
Sophism a specious argument used for deceiving someone
Specious Seemingly well-reasoned or factual, but actually fallacious or insincere; strongly held but false
Spurious false, not authentic, not genuine 
Stagiare Intern or apprentice.
Subtext Subtext is content of a book, play, musical work, film, video game or television series which is not announced explicitly by the characters (or author) but is implicit or becomes something understood by the observer of the work as the production unfolds.
Superfluous in excess of what is required or sufficient 
Surfeit excess; an excessive amount
Syncretism the attempt to reconcile disparate or contrary beliefs, often while melding practices of various schools of thought
Transmogrification To change into a different shape or form, especially one that is fantastic or bizarre.
Vanguard The foremost or leading position in a trend or movement.
Wonk One who studies an issue or a topic thoroughly or excessively
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