Trancendentalism
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- Expedient (n, adj.)
- A means to an end, practical, often with connotation of practical as opposed to principle
- Inexpedient (adj.)
- Impractical, not an effective way of getting things done
- Alacrity (n.)
- Cheerful willingness, eagerness; speed of complying
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To Become (v.)
Becoming (adj.) - To be appropriate or suitable to, to show a person to advantage either physically or socially or morally
- Fain (adj.)
- Gladly
- Reminiscence (n.)
- A remembered experience, the act of thinking or telling about a past experience
- Redress (n./v.)
- To set right, to remedy or rectify, to make amends to or for, to set straight; transitive verb: you redress a grievance
- Eradicate (v.)
- To completely eliminate, remove forever, to tear up by the roots
- Mean/ness (adj./n.)
- Small-spirited or small-minded or lacking in imagination
- Penitent (adj.)
- Feeling sorry for sin or wrongdoing, repentant
- Scourge (n./v.)
- In general, a cause of affliction, calamity, punishment or torture; more specifically can describe a whip or a lash
- Transgress (v.)
- To violate a law
- Impetuous (adj.)
- Impulsive, forceful, when you don't think before you act but rush right into something
- To avail oneself of (v.)
- To take advantage of (in a positive sense), make use of
- Set at naught (v.)
- To devalue, to consider worthless, value as nothing
- Absolve (v.)
- To free from guilt or blame or from a duty
- Wont to (adj.)
- Habitual or customary
- Importune (v.)
- To bother someone by interrupting them and asking for their attention
- Titular (adj.)
- In title
- Ephemeral (adj.)
- Short-lived, brief, fleeting
- Capitulate (v.)
- To give in to, to yield, to surrender
- Reverence (n.)
- A deep admiration for something, hint of worshipful
- Extemporaneous (adj.)
- Immprovised, on the spot, not fully controlled/planned
- Cognizant (adj.)
- Aware of, conscious of
- Moratorium (n.)
- A pause in activities, usually one mandated by an authority or law
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Appraisal (n.)
Appraise (v.) - A valuation of something or consideration of its plusses and minuses
- Gadfly (n.)
- An irritating pest that won't leave someone alone
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Estrangement (n.)
Estranged (adj.) - Feeling like a stranger to a situation or relationship; feeling alienated
- Rabid (adj.)
- Fanatically passionate about something
- Sublime (adj.)
- Grand in though, emotion, or feeling, so grand that it feels almost divine
- Paternalistic (adj.)
- Of or like a father; an attitude of treating someone like they are your child and you are daddy and know best
- Precipitate (v.)
- To throw or hurl; to cause suddenly to occur, to trigger an event
- Pilgrimage (n.)
- Journey to a sacred place
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Decorum (n.)
Decorous (adj.) - Proper behavior or rules
- Sanctity (n.)
- Holiness or sacredness, purity
- Exude (v.)
- To ooze out, to spread out in all directions from, to display clearly as a prominent characteristic
- Terrestrial (adj.)
- Pertaining to the earth, also used to talk about mundane, worldly, down-to-earth topics as opposed to celestial or heavenly topics
- Spartan (adj.)
- Self-disciplined; tough, simple and unadorned, sparse, not possessing luxuries or frills or anything unnecessary
- Superfluous (adj.)
- Excessive quantity of something, extravagant, wasteful
- Insensible (adj.)
- Imperceptible, not picked up by the senses (NOT stupid or senseless)