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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Malaise | a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify. |
| Imperative | essential or urgent thing. "free movement of labor was an economic imperative" |
| Empiricism | the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience |
| Vicissitudes | a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant. "her husband's sharp vicissitudes of fortune" |
| Cavalcade | a formal procession of people walking, on horseback, or riding in vehicles. "the royal cavalcade proceeded through the city" |
| Meticulous | ADJECTIVE showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise. "he had always been so meticulous about his appearance" synonyms: careful · |
| Panacea | a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases. "the panacea for all corporate ills" |
| Venerable | adjective accorded a great deal of respect, especially because of age, wisdom, or character. "a venerable statesman" |
| Nondescript | adjective lacking distinctive or interesting features or characteristics. "she lived in a nondescript suburban apartment block" |
| Comatose | adjective: of or in a state of deep unconsciousness for a prolonged or indefinite period, especially as a result of severe injury or illness. "she had been comatose for seven months" |
| Vacuous | ADJECTIVE having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless. "a vacuous smile" · [more] synonyms: blank · vacant · expressionless · deadpan · |
| Autodidact | NOUN a self-taught person. |
| Recriminations | recriminations (plural noun) an accusation in response to one from someone else. "there are no tears, no recriminations" synonyms: accusation(s |
| Polemic | noun a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something. "his polemic against the cultural relativism of the Sixties |
| Now-calcified trope | The hardened consensual view in the present day |
| Jawbone | verb present participle: jawboning attempt to persuade or pressure by the force of one's position of authority. "the Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman jawboned the dollar higher by calling its recent steep decline a purely speculative phenomenon" |
| Congregated | Gathered, met |
| Filial duty | adjective of or due from a son or daughter. "a display of filial affection" |
| Altruism | noun the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others. "some may choose to work with vulnerable elderly people out of altruism" |
| Virtuous | ADJECTIVE having or showing high moral standards. "she considered herself very virtuous because she neither drank nor smoked" synonyms: righteous |
| Beseech | VERB literary ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat. "they beseeched him to stay" · [more] synonyms: implore · beg |
| Heft | NOUN NORTH AMERICAN the weight of someone or something. "he was buckle-kneed from the heft of his staggering load" |
| Exasperated | ADJECTIVE intensely irritated and frustrated |
| Assuage | VERB make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense. "the letter assuaged the fears of most members" synonyms: relieve · ease · alleviate · soothe · mitigate · dampen |
| Conscription | NOUN compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces. |
| Odious imposition | Clear burden |
| Quixotically | ADJECTIVE exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical. "a vast and perhaps quixotic project" synonyms: idealistic · unbusinesslike |
| Anathema | something or someone that one vehemently dislikes. "racial hatred was anathema to her" |
| Warren | Den |
| Pugnacious | eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight. "his public statements became increasingly pugnacious" synonyms: combative · aggressive |
| Juxtaposition | Define juxtaposition [ˌjəkstəpəˈziSH(ə)n] NOUN the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. "the juxtaposition of these two images" synonyms: comparison · contrast |
| Agape | ADJECTIVE (of the mouth) wide open, especially with surprise or wonder. "Downes listened, mouth agape with incredulity" synonyms: amazed |
| Synecdoche | NOUN a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |
| Appendage | NOUN (often with negative or pejorative connotations) a thing that is added or attached to something larger or more important. "they treat Scotland as a mere appendage of England" synonyms: addition · |
| Rote | NOUN mechanical or habitual repetition of something to be learned. "a poem learned by rote in childhood" synonyms: mechanically · automatically |
| Incessant | ADJECTIVE (of something regarded as unpleasant) continuing without pause or interruption. "the incessant beat of the music" synonyms: ceaseless · unceasing · constant · continual |
| Explicable | Clear |
| Chide | Criticized |
| Wane | VERB (of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated synonyms: · decrease · diminish (especially of a condition or feeling) decrease in vigor, power, or extent; become weaker. "confidence in the dollar waned" |
| Vitriolic | ADJECTIVE filled with bitter criticism or malice. "vitriolic attacks on the politicians" · [more] synonyms: acrimonious · rancorous · bitter |
| Irrevocably | irrevocably [ˌi(r)ˈrevəkəblē] ADVERB in a way that cannot be changed, reversed, or recovered. "my life changed irrevocably in an instant" "I was irrevocably bound to my tragic past |
| Polyglot | ADJECTIVE knowing or using several languages. "New Orleans has always been a polyglot city |
| Opined | VERB opined (past tense) · opined (past participle) hold and state as one's opinion. "“The man is a genius,” he opined" · [more] synonyms: suggest |
| Nadir | NOUN the lowest point in the fortunes of a person or organization. "they had reached the nadir of their sufferings" synonyms: the lowest point · the all-time low |
| Paean | NOUN a song of praise or triumph. "a paean of praise for the great poets" a thing that expresses enthusiastic praise. "his books are paeans to combat |
| Pseudojournalist | Fake journalist |
| Ignominy | NOUN public shame or disgrace. "the ignominy of being imprisoned" synonyms: shame · humiliation · embarrassment · mortification · disgrace · dishonor |
| Epitome | NOUN (the epitome of) a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type. "she looked the epitome of elegance and good taste" synonyms: personification |
| Salient | ADJECTIVE most noticeable or important. "it succinctly covered all the salient points of the case" synonyms: important · main |
| Black exemplar | Black leader, and black example |
| Cogently | ADJECTIVE (of an argument or case) clear, logical, and convincing. "they put forward cogent arguments for British membership" · [more] synonyms: convincing |
| Lucrative | ADJECTIVE producing a great deal of profit. "a lucrative career as a stand-up comedian" synonyms: profitable · profit-making · gainful · remunerative · moneymaking |
| Subservient | less important; subordinate. "he expected her career to become subservient to his" synonyms: subordinate · secondary · subsidiary · peripheral · marginal |
| Assailing | VERB assailing (present participle) make a concerted or violent attack on. "the Scots army assailed Edward's army from the rear" synonyms: attack · assault |
| Hewing | Define hew [hyo͞o] VERB hewing (present participle) chop or cut (something, especially wood or coal) with an axe, pick, or other tool. "we have finished hauling and hewing timber" synonyms: chop · hack |
| Jubilant | ADJECTIVE feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph. synonyms: overjoyed · exultant · triumphant |
| Excoriate | VERB formal censure or criticize severely. "the papers that had been excoriating him were now lauding him" |
| Impinge | have an effect or impact, especially a negative one. "Nora was determined that the tragedy would impinge as little as possible on Constance's life" |
| Myopic | ADJECTIVE nearsighted. synonyms: short-sighted · nearsighted · purblind lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight. "the government still has a myopic attitude to public spending" synonyms: unimaginative · uncreative · |
| Profligate | ADJECTIVE recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources. "profligate consumers of energy" synonyms: wasteful, extravagant |
| Full fledged delirium | Completely mad |
| Rectitude | NOUN formal morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness. "Maddie is a model of rectitude" synonyms: righteousness · goodness · virtue · moral virtue · morality |
| Messianism | An admirable passion "Rather than deflating their Messianism, the defeat actually stoked it" |
| Candor | NOUN the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness. "a man of refreshing candor" "Trump announcing his racism in a burst of candor" synonyms: frankness · openness · honesty · truthfulness · sincerity · forthrightness · directness |
| Juxtapose | VERB place or deal with close together for contrasting effect. "black-and-white photos of slums were starkly juxtaposed with color images" synonyms: place/set side by side · place/set close to one another · mix · compare |
| Brooding | ADJECTIVE showing deep unhappiness of thought. "he stared with brooding eyes" appearing darkly menacing. "a dark, brooding landscape" synonyms: threatening · ominous |
| Exorbitant | ADJECTIVE (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high. "the exorbitant price of tickets" synonyms: extortionate · excessively high |
| Enmeshed | VERB enmeshed (past tense) cause to become entangled in something. "whales enmeshed in drift nets" involve (someone) in a difficult situation from which it is hard to escape. "he is enmeshed in an adulterous affair" synonyms: entangle |
| Increasingly impervious | Impervious = unable to be affected by. "The system over time grew increasingly impervious to change" synonyms: unaffected by · untouched by · immune to |
| Subsidize | pay part of the cost of producing (something) to reduce prices for the buyer. "the government subsidizes basic goods including sugar, petroleum, and wheat" |
| Seediness | Noun adjective seedy sordid and disreputable. "his seedy affair with a soft-porn starlet" synonyms: sordid · disreputable |
| Sprawled out of control | Spread out of control |
| Cacophonous | ADJECTIVE involving or producing a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. "the cacophonous sound of slot machines" synonyms: loud · noisy |
| Analogize | VERB analogizing (present participle) make a comparison of (something) with something else to assist understanding. "In scary movie 3 the sheriff snapped a tinkie in half to analogize the condition of the priests wife" synonyms: compare · equate |
| Analogizing | analogizing (present participle) make a comparison of (something) with something else to assist understanding. "The doctor was analogizing white blood cells to hunters looking for very specific prey" synonyms: compare · equate |
| Completely open-ended | Undecided "Her sense of how much me time would be needed remained completely open ended" |
| Parochial | ADJECTIVE relating to a church parish. "the parochial church council" having a limited or narrow outlook or scope. "this worldview seems was based on incredibly naive and the most parochial ground" synonyms: narrow-minded · small-minded |
| Lambasted | VERB lambasted (past tense) · lambasted (past participle) criticize (someone or something) harshly. "they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth" synonyms: criticize · castigate · chastise |
| Consummated | make (a relationship) complete by having sexual intercourse "they did not consummate their marriage until months after it took place" complete (a transaction or attempt); make perfect |
| Consummated | VERB consummated (past tense) · consummated (past participle) "his scheme of colonization was consummated through bloodshed" synonyms: complete · conclude · finish · accomplish · achieve |
| Travails | VERB travails (third person present) engage in painful or laborious effort. "creation may travail in pain but it cannot escape its destiny" |
| Axiomatic | ADJECTIVE self-evident or unquestionable. "it is axiomatic that dividends have to be financed" synonyms: self-evident · unquestionable · undeniable · accepted · understood · given · |
| Recalcitrant | ADJECTIVE having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline. "a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds" synonyms: intransigent · resistant · |
| Shoddily | ADJECTIVE badly made or done. "we're not paying good money for shoddy goods" synonyms: poor-quality |
| Portentous | ADJECTIVE of or like a portent. "the envelope and its portentous contents" synonyms: ominous · warning · foreshadowing |
| Flux | continuous change. "since the fall of the wall Berlin has been a city in flux" · [more] synonyms: continuous change |
| Conjure | Summon |
| Brooding | ADJECTIVE showing deep unhappiness of thought. "he stared with brooding eyes" appearing darkly menacing. "a dark, brooding landscape" synonyms: threatening |
| Inordinately | ADVERB to an unusually or disproportionately large degree; excessively. "the information was inordinately vetted and censored" · "negotiations took an inordinately long time" |
| Autonomy | Self governance |
| Portent | NOUN a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen. "they believed that wild birds in the house were portents of death" synonyms: omen · sign · indication |
| Hard-nosed | ADJECTIVE informal realistic and determined; tough-minded. "the hard-nosed, tough General Westmoreland" synonyms: tough-minded · unsentimental · down-to-earth · no-nonsense |
| Publicly rubbishing | He proved his loyalty to George Washington by publicly rubbishing the king |
| Crude intimidation | Cruel blackmailing noun |
| Secluded | ADJECTIVE (of a place) not seen or visited by many people; sheltered and private. "the presidental limousine stayed there idling in the secluded" synonyms: sheltered · private |
| Apotheosis | NOUN the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax. "his appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career" synonyms: culmination · climax · crowning moment · peak · pinnacle · summit |
| Courteous diffidence | Polite modesty/humbleness "The waitor continued to perform his duties with courteous diffidence despite the customers insults to his charecter" |
| Balkanized | VERB Balkanized (past tense) · Balkanized (past participle) divide (a region or body) into smaller mutually hostile states or groups. "ambitious neighbors would snatch pieces of territory, Balkanizing the country |
| Lede | NOUN US the opening sentence or paragraph of a news article, summarizing the most important aspects of the story. "the lede has been rewritten and the headline changed" |
| Petered out | Gradually faded out "The presentation slowly petered out" |
| Scarcely contain | Verb Barely hold on to "I could scarcely contain my excitement as I saw the wrapped present was in the shape of a Wii game container" |
| Compulsive meddling | Uncontrollable meddling "Arteta's compulsive meddling was restricting the player's ability to play good football and win games" |
| Obstinately deaf | Stubbornly ignoring someone or something "Riya was again obstinately deaf to my advice" |
| Actuarial | ADJECTIVE relating to actuaries or their work of compiling and analyzing statistics to calculate insurance risks and premiums. "Cold hard actuarial facts were applied to the medicare law" |
| Wreaking havoc | Causing chaos |
| Delineated | Verb "The system will be delineated as a time before Obamacare and a time after" synonyms: describe · set forth · set out · present · outline · depict · portray · [more] a border or boundary outline · trace · draw the lines of · draw · sketch |
| Cursory | |
| ADJECTIVE hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed. "Trump lacked even a cursory understanding of how laws work" synonyms: perfunctory · desultory · casual | |
| Haplessness | ADJECTIVE (especially of a person) unfortunate. "if you're one of the many hapless car buyers who've been shafted" synonyms: unfortunate · unlucky |
| Grandiose | ADJECTIVE impressive and imposing in appearance or style, especially pretentiously so. "the court's grandiose facade" synonyms: magnificent · impressive · grand · imposing · awe-inspiring · splendid "grandiose plans to reform the world ambitious |
| Insolvency | NOUN the state of being insolvent; inability to pay one's debts. "the club was facing insolvency" · [more] synonyms: bankruptcy · liquidation · failure · collapse |
| His youthful belief that he would one day command the world's respect had been vindicated, amply | His youthful belief that he would one day command the world's respect had been vindicated, amply |
| Eminent | ADJECTIVE (of a person) famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession. "one of the world's most eminent statisticians" synonyms: illustrious · distinguished · renowned · esteemed · preeminent · [more] |
| Ascetic (a wiry ascetic) | NOUN a person who practices severe self-discipline and abstention. synonyms: abstainer · recluse |
| Jettisoned | abandon or discard (someone or something that is no longer wanted). "individuals are often forced to jettison certain attitudes and behaviors" synonyms: dumped |
| After a long journey, Greenspan has ascended to the apex of American life, and the 2 most important women in his life were at his side | After a long journey, Greenspan has ascended to the apex of American life, and the 2 most important women in his life were at his side |
| Plenary | NOUN a meeting or session attended by all participants at a conference or assembly. "working parties would report back to the plenary with recommendations" synonyms: meeting · sitting |
| Hansen: So how about it, Nash? You scared? | Nash: Terrified... mortified... petrified... stupefied... by you. |
| Anthropogenic global warming | Scientific name for phenomenon that the release of carbon and other heat trapping gasses increases global temperatures |
| Edge away from their heresy or to flee in dissaray | |
| Any semblance of reason | |
| Fatalism | |
| Corral | |
| Unfathomably remote | Unimaginable in today's time |
| The case for _______ hardened | The need for _______ is more necessary |
| Coy | reluctant to give details, especially about something regarded as sensitive. "he is coy about his age" |
| Stanched | VERB stanched (past tense) · stanched (past participle) stop or restrict (a flow of blood) from a wound. "colleagues may have saved her life by stanching the flow" · "the company did nothing to stanch the tide of rumors" |
| Naïf | ADJECTIVE naive or ingenuous. NOUN a naive or ingenuous person. "His opponents wanted to cast him as a naïf unsuited to the responsibilities of leading the free world" |
| Dovish | ADJECTIVE advocating peaceful or conciliatory policies, especially in foreign affairs. "Obama made American policy more dovish" |
| Prosecutor's fallacy | The fallacy of statistical reasoning involving a test for an occurrence, such as a DNA match. A positive result in the test may paradoxically be more likely to be a erroneous result than an actual occurrence. |
| Prosecutor's fallacy | Example: a innocent guy's hair is coincidentally found on a murder victims shirt. The prosecutor knows that this hair is a coincedent but still uses it as evidence to create a case against the innocent guy. |
| Generously supportive and eerily private | How i act around people |
| ADJECTIVE | ADJECTIVE powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating; seductive. "the town offers alluring shops and restaurants" synonyms: enticing · tempting · attractive · appealing · fetching · inviting · glamorous · captivating · seductive |
| Folly | NOUN lack of good sense; foolishness. "an act of sheer folly" |
| Austere | ADJECTIVE severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance. "an austere man, with a rigidly puritanical outlook" · "an austere expression" severe · stern · strict · harsh · unfeeling · stony · steely · flinty · dour · grim · cold · frosty |
| Speculative hue | A uncertain nuance |
| Ruminations | NOUN ruminations (plural noun) a deep or considered thought about something. "philosophical ruminations about life and humanity" the action or process of thinking deeply about something. "The clients payed top dollar for Greenspan's ruminations |
| Itinerant | ADJECTIVE traveling from place to place. "itinerant traders" synonyms: traveling · peripatetic · wandering · wayfaring · roving · roaming · rambling · touring · nomadic "An itinerant jazz player in nyc" |
| Expanded his intellectual ambitions | Expanded my intellectual ambitions |
| Leery | ADJECTIVE informal cautious or wary due to realistic suspicions. "a city leery of gang violence" synonyms: cautious · careful · circumspect · on one's guard · chary · |
| Keynesian | Keynesian economics is considered a "demand-side" theory that focuses on changes in the economy over the short run. |
| Keynesian | Based on his theory, Keynes advocated for increased government expenditures and lower taxes to stimulate demand and pull the global economy out of the depression. |
| Keynesian | Keynesian economics was used to refer to the concept that optimal economic performance could be achieved—and economic slumps prevented—by influencing aggregate demand through activist stabilization and economic intervention policies by the government |
| Cardinal error | Major mistake |
| Quiescent, quiescence | Opposite of dominant, dominance |
| Imperative | NOUN an essential or urgent thing. "free movement of labor was an economic imperative" synonyms: necessary condition · precondition · condition · essential · requirement · |
| Prescient | ADJECTIVE having or showing knowledge of events before they take place. "a prescient warning" synonyms: prophetic · predictive · visionary · psychic · |
| Yawning chasm | Widening gap "The yawning chasm between the scale of Obama achievements and the mood of his supporters presents one of the mysteries of the era |
| Plied | Bribed "Lenders plied college loan officers with meals, cruises, and other gifts" |
| Languished | Failed |
| Florid | elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated. "florid operatic-style music was out" synonyms: ornate · fancy "Republicans denounced the proposal in their usual florid terms" |
| Atomization | reduce (something) to atoms or other small distinct units. "by disrupting our ties with our neighbors, crime atomizes society" |
| Mollified | reduce the severity of (something); soften. "the women hoped to mollify the harsh wilderness environment" synonyms: allay · assuage · alleviate |
| Proprietary trading | this type of trading activity occurs when a bank chooses to profit from market activities rather than commissions obtained through client trading activity. May involve the trading of stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies or other instruments. |
| Engendered | VERB engendered (past tense) cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition). "the issue engendered continuing controversy" synonyms:be the cause of · give rise to · bring about · lead to · result in · produce · create · generate · arouse |
| Gainsaid | speak against or oppose (someone). "none could gainsay her" synonyms: be against · object to · be hostile to · be anti · be in opposition to · disagree with · dislike · disapprove of · resist · take a stand against · |
| Spasms of rage | The Obama agenda produced spasms of rage amongst the republicans and the liberals |
| Harangue | lecture (someone) at length in an aggressive and critical manner. "the kind of guy who harangued total strangers about PCB levels in whitefish" synonyms: deliver a tirade to · rant at · lecture · |
| Sacrosanct | ADJECTIVE (especially of a principle, place, or routine) regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with. "Excessive Defense spending is practically a sacrosanct practice of Republican admins" synonyms: sacred· inviolate · unimpeachable |
| Apogee | NOUN the highest point in the development of something; a climax or culmination. "the White House is considered the apogee of American achievement" synonyms: climax · pinnacle · peak |
| Vast gulch | Large ravine, gap, canyon "Obama's failures seem like potholes when compared to the vast gulch of failure that was the Carter presidency" |
| Machinations | NOUN machinations (plural noun) a plot or scheme. synonyms: schemes · plotting · plots· plans · devices · ploys · ruses · tricks MLK viewed JFK's shrewd civil rights machinations with unbridled gratitude |
| Vacillated | VERB vacillated waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive. "I had for a time vacillated between teaching and journalism" JFK seemed vacillated on civil rights issues synonyms: be indecisive · be irresolute · be undecided |
| Incorrigible | ADJECTIVE (of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed. "she's an incorrigible flirt" synonyms: inveterate · habitual · confirmed · hardened · incurable · |
| Prescient | having or showing knowledge of events before they take place. "His reponse to a no fly zone on Ukraine was precient of a new world war" synonyms: visionary · psychic · clairvoyant · far-seeing · far-sighted · with foresight · apocolytpic |
| Court | Verb Attract, or bring about "War with China would court economic annihilation" |
| Bear fruit | Show progress "After many years of remodeling, the investment into the property was finally beginning to bear fruit" |
| Inchoate | confused or incoherent. "Trump's rallies are inchoate for the intelligent man" synonyms: unclear · confused · muddled · unintelligible · incomprehensible · hard to follow |
| Tonic of tax cuts | Using tax cuts to solve economic problems |
| Conspicuously silent | Noticeably silent |
| Rangy | ADJECTIVE (of a person) tall and slim with long, slender limbs. "a pale, rangy boy in his late teens" synonyms: long-legged · long-limbed · leggy · tall · slender · slim · lean · thin What reagon looked like |
| Druids | a member of a present-day group claiming to represent or be derived from this religion. "Qanon was a religion and trump supporters were it's druids, wearing their maga hats like they were mystical cone shaped wizard hats from harry Potter" |
| Replete | ADJECTIVE filled or well-supplied with something. "sensational popular fiction, replete with adultery and sudden death" synonyms: filled · full · well stocked · well provided crowded · packed · jammed · stuffed · teeming · overflowing · bursting |
| Predilections | NOUN predilections (plural noun) a preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something. "my predilection for Asian food" synonyms: liking · fondness · preference · partiality · taste · penchant · weakness · soft spot |
| Opstreperous | ADJECTIVE noisy and difficult to control. "the boy is cocky and obstreperous" synonyms: disorderly · rowdy · wild · unmanageable · uncontrollable |
| Owlishly | Greenspan was a sober owlishly bespectacled figure |
| Putative | ADJECTIVE generally considered or reputed to be. "Jeb Bush seemed like the putative head of the republican party in 2016 until Trump showed up" synonyms: apparent · seeming · alleged · reputed |
| Atavistic | relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral. "atavistic tales of cursed land scared the locals" synonyms: ancient · old · very old · age-old · antediluvian · timeless · archaic · long-standing · long-lived · ancestral |
| Cadres | NOUN cadres (plural noun) a small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession. "a small cadre of scientists" synonyms: small group · body · team a member of an activist group. |
| Fulminated | |
| Exacerbated by rumors | Worsened by rumors |
| Burning to make his mark, to the maximum extent of his abilities | |
| Scruples | scru·ple NOUN scruples (plural noun) a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality of a course of action: · "without scruple, these politicians use fear as a persuasion weapon" synonyms: qualms compunction · hesitation · reservations |
| Erudite | ADJECTIVE having or showing great knowledge or learning: "Even in it's must erudute form, conservatism was still a racist idealogy. synonyms: learned · scholarly · well educated · knowledgeable · well read ·lettered · cultured · cultivated · civilized |