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Abrev. Advice. Animals. Art. Character. Children. Computing. Crosswords. Driving. Education. Electronics. Fitness/Self Defence.
Garden/Yard. History. Health. House Ideas. How To. Jokes. Kitchen/Cooking. Magic. Measure. Mechanics/Machines. Motivation.
Movies. Music. NZ. OOS/RSI. People. Personal Care. Photography. Poetry. Projects. Proverbs. Religion. Reviews. Sewing.
Skills/Hobbies. Slang. Stories. The Book. The Mind. Tips. Tools. Whats It Mean? Words. Woodwork.
• Abstract.
• AD. Latin: Anno Domini, in the year of the Lord.
• Advocate. Upholder. Champion. Spokesperson. Campaigner. An advocate for peace. Pleads for someone, or in behalf of another person, an intercessor.
• Aetiological.
• Aiding and Abetting. Aiding and abetting is a legal doctrine related to the guilt of someone who aids or abets another person in the commission of a crime. It exists in a number of different countries and generally allows a court to pronounce someone guilty for aiding and abetting in a crime even if they are not the principal offender. - Wikipedia.
• Archaic. - Old Fashioned. - Words no longer used, but used nowadays from time to time. - An early period of art or culture.
• Attitude.
• Auger- helical shaft or part that is used for boring holes.
• Authenticity.
♦ Authority. Parents. Government, legal, those who assume that they have the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.
• BC - Before Christ.
• BCE. Before Christian Era. Before Common Era.
• Boldness. Someone who takes risks, goes ahead when others don’t, and their bold attitude inspires other to walk alongside the bold person. Daring. heroic, brave, valiant, valorous, dauntless, audacious, adventurous. Someone who is not hesitating to break the rules for the right reasons. A risk taker. The fierceness of knowing that one is right makes them bold and unafraid of truth and what they do, because it is the right thing to do for others - boldness is power of will, determination to succeed. Also there are those who are said to be bold in appearance.
C
• Carabiners - is a special type of shackle which is a metal loop with a spring-loaded gate/latch used to quickly and reversibly connect components, most notably in safety-critical systems.
• Cavil - Raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault unnecessarily, make petty or unnecessary objections.
• CE. Common Era
• Clemency. Lenience. Mercy.
• Coercion. To convince a person by fear, threats, & force. To compel. To dominate by force.
• Collaborate. - To work with others on a project. Too work jointly with another group to achieve a goal.
• Colonialism. The taking over of another country, creating political rules according to the invading countries beliefs, with the aim of economic dominance. The British Empire was well known for this in the past.
• Comely. Pleasant to look at; attractive, maybe in a mature way. Typically about a woman.
• Concept. A plan, idea, invention, conception, something conceived, thought up, in the mind. Can be based on real phenomena and are a generalized idea of something of meaning.
• Conceptualization.
• Concur. Agree, of the same opinion. Something happened or occurred at the same time; coincide.
• Conformity. is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours to group norms, politics or being like minded.
Norms are implicit, specific rules, shared by a group of individuals, that guide their interactions with others. - Wikipedia.
• Conscience.
• Consternation. A feeling of dismay. Confusion. Befuddled. A feeling of surprise, sudden disappointment that causes confusion.
• Consummation.
• Creed.
• Crescendo. A gradual increase, such as a gradual increase in volume/sound. A gradual increase in excitement.
• Debacle. A fiasco, a complete disaster, a calamity, complete failure, a sudden downfall. A poorly put together plan and ends in complete failure.
Can also be known by the failed results. “The Johnson debacle was a great lesson of how to campaign and fail.”
• Discernment.
• Discrete. Reserved, careful not to speak about sensitive subjects. Cautious, modest. Separate; distinct, individual, different from each other.
• Dishonesty: Absence of integrity and probity, lack of internal and external truthfulness. Dishonesty comprises all kinds of moral faithlessness, fraud and deceit; e.g. theft, treachery, idleness, usury, violation of trust, debt, quackery, bribery, cheating, extravagance, false witness, and any injury willfully conceived, and inflicted on another person or character.
- E F Cavalier.
• Dissident. Disagreeing, especially with the established or political views. “She was suspected, we think, of having connections with a dissident group.”
• Dogmatic: The Greek word dogma, which means basically “what one thinks is true” Stating views, beliefs, principles as truths.
Dogmatic views can be set as solid truths and not questioned.
• Doppelgänger:
• Efficacy
• Eggcorn. If you hear someone say “acorn” and thinking they said “eggcorn.” Words, phrases that are misheard and can consequently reform into a new word or phrase. Examples: For all intensive purposes - for all intents and purposes.
• Egocentric. Thinking only of oneself, without any thought for the feelings or desires of others; being self-centred.
• Empath.
• Empirical.
• Enigma. Something that is hard to explain or understand. A mysterious person.
• Enigmatic. A puzzling person who you can’t really make out. What they communicate may not be easily understood. Not easy to interpret. A mysterious person.
• Etc. “Et cetera”. Meaning that others similar things follow. And so forth.
• Euphoric. That overwhelming feeling of being happy, excited, intense happiness.
• Euphoric Love. When you're around the person you love, you have feelings of pleasure, giddiness. nervous excitement.
• Ezer.
• Fastidious. A person who is fastidious could also be called fussy, tidy, pays a lot of attention to perfection, cleanliness, etc.
• Gainsay.
• Gauche. A person who could be considered tactless, not bought up right, clumsy, awkward, shy, suffers from ill-breeding.
• Glossary. A list of words in alphabetical order, normally at the end of a book, relating to a specific subject, with explanations, like a dictionary.
H
• Haberdashery.
• Hypothesis. A proposed explanation of a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, becomes a starting point for further investigation.
• Hypothetical.
• Inculcate. Inculcating, teaching or influencing persistently and repeatedly so as to implant or instill an idea, theory, attitude, etc into a person or people.
• Indoctrinate. To teach a doctrine, belief as if it were true without criticism of that belief. Teaching the belief without questioning them.
• Introspect. The examination of one’s own thoughts and feelings.
• Introspection. Examination of ones own mental state, thoughts, soul, and feelings.
• Keyword/s. The words put into a Search Engine, search by title, by author, by subject, and by keyword. An important word from a document. Describes the contents of a particular document.
• Kudos. The word comes from the Greek word kydos. Kydos means praise or renown. Kudos praise for an achievement, applause, distinction and so on.
L
• Lateral. Moving in a sideways direction. Relating to the sides of something. The bicycle derailleur moved in a lateral direction to change to a bigger cog.
• Liberty. Freedom from physical restraint. General freedom to do as we please. To be free.
• Longitudinal.
• Malice.
• Mandatory. - required by law or mandate; compulsory.
• Manipulation.
• Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
• Moral. The lessons that we receive from a story or from a Life Experience.
• Morality.
• Morpheme.
• Nonchalant. - The word carries a meaning of being relaxed, calm about something/someone and not caring.
• Normalizing.
• Noun. A word that describes a person, place, thing, or idea. Functions as the name of a specific object, or set of objects, such as places, qualities,, living creatures, actions, states of existence, or ideas.
• Pacifist. - There are many variations about what a Pacifist believes, but basically is that they don’t believe in force to settle arguments, or to use war as a way to settle arguments/disputes, but they do believe in defending the bullied, the weak, the poor, and what they love most.
• Paramount. - Supreme. More important than anything else. “The child’s safety and health is of paramount importance.”
• Perception. Being aware of something through the senses. Visual perception, auditory perception, olfactory perception, haptic perception, and gustatory (taste).
• Pragmatic. A person who uses practical approaches and solutions, as opposed to being ideal in theory.
• Preconceive: To form (an opinion, for example) before possessing full or adequate knowledge or experience.
• Procrastination. Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished by a certain deadline.
It could be further stated as a habitual or intentional delay of starting or finishing a task despite knowing it might have negative consequences. - Wikipedia.
• Prophetic. The accurate predicting of what will happen in the future.
• Prophecy. Is a message that is claimed by a prophet to have been communicated to them by a deity. Such messages typically involve inspiration, interpretation, or revelation of divine will concerning the prophet's social world and events to come. - Wikipedia.
• Proselytize. To succeed in persuading or leading a person to do something, like join a political party, feminism, religion, cause, organization. Converting someone to a faith, Belief System, to believe in their opinion etc.
• Reciprocal.
• Reconciliation. Restoring relationships.
• Religiophobia - An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety of religion, religious thinking, people etc.
• Repentance. is the activity of reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs, which is accompanied by commitment to and actual actions that show and prove a change for the better. - Wikipedia.
• Repertoire. A list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a person is prepared to perform.
• Scapegoat.
• Senses. The 5 senses are said to be, Touch, Sight, Hearing, Smell and Taste.
• Serendipity.
• Shallow.
• Shame.
• Sharenting. Sharenting (or oversharenting) is the overuse of social media by parents to share content based on their children, such as baby pictures or details of their children's activities… …In extreme forms, parental sharing of their children's information has led to a phenomenon labeled "digital kidnapping", whereby children's photos and details have been appropriated by others who promote such kids as being their own children. Research has shown that millions of innocent photographs, end up on paedophilic and hebephilic websites. - Wikipedia.
• Sidled. Moving sideways like through a opening, doorway. To move shyly, coyly, possibly insecurely.
• Sixth Sense. Said to be psychic, or a sense of something going to happen and then it does. Being right about something with no proof.
• Slander.
• Sparta. An ancient city in the Peloponnese, southern Greece.
• Spartan. A self disciplined person, of great courage, also a native of Sparta.
• Stationary. Fixed, immobile, or unchanging. Standing still. The bike at the gym that is attached to the floor, it goes nowhere, it is stationary.
• Stationery. Writing materials, paper, and other office materials.
• Surname. In England, the last name of a person/family.
• Synonym. A word that is the same or similar as another word/phrase/morpheme. Example: Good - fine, excellent, great.
• Take Heed.
• Tares - Weedy plants of the genus Vicia, especially the common vetch. - D L Moody.
(in biblical use) an injurious weed resembling corn when young (Matt. 13:24–30). - Oxford.
• Tenacious. That person who doesn’t give up, stubborn. Someone who keeps a hold of something, clings to it, adhering closely.
• TTFN.
U
• Unassuming. Not arrogant, not prideful or pretentious. Someone humble, calm, self-assured, modest.
• Unprecedented. Unparalleled. Not been done before. Unmatched.
V
• Vaguely - Unclear, uncertain, “I vaguely remember”, approximately, “I have a vague understanding of how it works”, not a total understanding”.
• Vogue. - The latest thing of that time. Popular. A particular style, fashion. “In vogue” as it is called.
• Woe. Great sorrow. Great Distress. “Woe to those who call evil good.”
I am not claiming that the words here are explained perfectly, and I do suggest you
do your own research. I use this page from time to time to help remind myself what
a word means. View the word list as a text file and print it here:
WordList.txt -
16th of March, 2021.
There are times in our lives when we are in conversation with others, or are being taught in a class, that a word pops up that we don’t really understand, and that could affect how we understand what is being said. An entire presentation can become confusing simply because we don’t understand a few words that were said. My education was not the best and my parents were not that well educated, so this sort of experience was common in my life and I was often the one who was confused because of a few words I didn’t understand. So here I offer to you some words/phrases that can help you as well.
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z .
Abrev. Advice. Camera. Character. Children. Computing. Crosswords. Electronics. Fitness/Self Defence. Garden. Health.
Homeschooling. Housework. Idioms. Jokes. Kitchen/Cooking. Measure. Mechanics/Machines. Motivation. Movies. Music. NZ.
People. Personal Care. Poetry. Proverbs. Religion. Reviews. School Education. Skills. Slang. Stories. Tips. Tools. Whats It Mean?