A • 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. • Auger- helical shaft or part that is used for boring holes. • Authority. Parents. Government, legal, those who assume that they have the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. 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. • Coercion. To convince a person by fear, threats, & force. To compel. To dominate by force. • 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. • Computer Terminology. • 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. • Consternation. A feeling of dismay. Confusion. Befuddled. A feeling of surprise, sudden disappointment that causes confusion. • Crescendo. A gradual increase, such as a gradual increase in volume/sound. A gradual increase in excitement. D • Discernment. • 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. • Discrete. Reserved, careful not to speak about sensitive subjects. Cautious, modest. Separate; distinct, individual, different from each other. • 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. E • 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. • 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. F • Fastidious. A person who is fastidious could also be called fussy, tidy, pays a lot of attention to perfection, cleanliness, etc. • Flying Monkeys. • Fork in the Road. G • Gainsay. • Gauche. A person who could be considered tactless, not bought up right, clumsy, awkward, shy, suffers from ill-breeding. • GmbH. 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. I • 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. L • Liberty. Freedom from physical restraint. General freedom to do as we please. To be free. • Longitudinal. M • Malice. • Mandatory. - required by law or mandate; compulsory. • Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. • Morality. • Morpheme. N • Nonchalant. - The word carries a meaning of being relaxed, calm about something/someone and not caring. • Normalizing. P • 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). • Perpendicular. • Pragmatic. A person who uses practical approaches and solutions, as opposed to being ideal in theory. • 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. • 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. R • 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. S • Senses. The 5 senses are said to be, Touch, Sight, Hearing, Smell and Taste. • 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. • 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. • Synonym. A word that is the same or similar as another word/phrase/morpheme. Example: Good - fine, excellent, great. T • 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”. W • Woe. Great sorrow. Great Distress. “Woe to those who call evil good.”