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- adventitious - accidental; appearing casually
- antipathy - a feeling of intense dislike
- apoplectic - of or related to a sudden loss of consciousness such as a rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
- a posteriori - derived from observed facts
- a priori - derived by logic without observed facts
- bathyscaphe - navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration
- betoken - indicate
- bowdlerize - to remove parts of an account or text that are deemed offensive
- brusquely - in a blunt direct manner
- capricious - determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; impulsive; whimsical
- chary - characterized by great caution and wariness
- cliquiness - the state, quality or condition of being cliquey - an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- cloy - To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit
- colloquy - a formal conversation
- conforaneous - of the marketplace or court
- crèche - day nursery; a foundling (abandoned infant child 'found') hospital where infants are taken in and cared for
- decaplet - alt - decuplet; coordinate term for a group of ten, or one of ten (babies born at the same time)
- dectuple - tenfold; group of ten
- denary - containing ten or ten parts
- diminuendo - a gradual decrease in loudness
- ebullience - overflowing with eager enjoyment or enthusiasm
- empiricism - the philosophical doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
- engaged theory - which moves across different levels of interpretation, linking different empirical questions to ontological understandings
- ennead - any grouping or system containing nine objects
- epistemology - the ontological philosophical theory of knowledge
- extemporaneous - ad-lib; with little or no preparation or forethought
- faculae - bright spot on a planet such as Mercury
- filch - make off with the belongings of others
- florid - elaborately or excessively ornamented
- frenetically - in a very agitated manner; as if possessed by a mythological evil spirit
- friable - easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
- gangplank - temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside
- gerontocracy - a political system governed by old men
- gradus - a handbook used as an aid in a difficult art or practice
- grandiloquent - given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive number of difficult words to impress others
- Grounded theory - which seeks to derive theories from facts;
- hagiography - a biography that idolizes or idealizes the person (especially a person called a “saint”)
- hew - to shape with an ax
- indissoluble - incapable of being dissolved (in a solution)
- ineffable - defying expression or description
- inexpert - lack of professional skill or expertise
- insuperable - impossible to surmount; insurmountable
- intransigence - the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise
- involute - rolled; having margins rolled inward; especially of pedals or leaves in bud; closely coiled (shell) so the axis is obscured
- junketing - taking an excursion for pleasure
- lexicomane - a lover of words
- malevolent - having or exerting a malignant influence
- metaphysics - the philosophical study of being and knowing
- mottle - colored with streaks or blotches of different shades
- munificent - very generous
- nettle - any of a number of plants with stinging hairs that cause skin irritation
- nonuplet - coordinate term for a group of nine
- nostrum - hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by alchemists
- onerous - not easily borne; wearing (burdensome, taxing)
- ontology - the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
- pall - a sudden numbing dread
- parsimonious - excessively unwilling to spend
- positivism - (ontological theory) which focuses on the observations themselves, attending more to claims about facts than to facts themselves
- postmodernism - which regards facts as fluid and elusive, and recommends focusing only on observational claims in ontological theory
- prodigal - rashly or wastefully extravagant
- quixotic - not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
- rationalism - the philosophical doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resorting to experience
- realism - the idea that facts are "out there" just waiting to be discovered;
- redound - return or recoil
- relativism - the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved
- ribald - off-color; humorously vulgar
- rueful - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for offenses
- sanguine - a blood red color
- sardonically - in a sarcastic manner
- sessile - permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
- simulacrum - (plural simulacra) an insubstantial or vague semblance; a representation of a person such as a statue
- skein - coils of worsted yarn (tightly twisted woolen yarn from long-staple wool)
- sophistry - a deliberate invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hopes of deceivingly someone
- sphericity - the roundness of a three dimensional object
- spome - is any hypothetical system closed with respect to matter and open with respect to energy capable of sustaining human life indefinitely
- stauling-ken - a house that will receive stollen goods
- stolid - impassive; having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
- stultify - deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
- surfeit - To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust; overindulge
- susurration - the indistinct sound of people whispering
- torpid - slow and apathetic
- turgid - abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
- voluble - marked by a ready flow of speech
- winnowing - the act of separating the grain from the chaff; select the desirable parts of a group or list; to cull
- witticism - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to invoke laughter