| 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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